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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-12-09 17:14:38 +1100
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-12-09 17:14:38 +1100
commitbcd6acd51f3d4d1ada201e9bc5c40a31d6d80c71 (patch)
tree2f6dffd2d3e4dd67355a224de7e7a960335a92fd /mm/bootmem.c
parent11c34c7deaeeebcee342cbc35e1bb2a6711b2431 (diff)
parent3ff6a468b45b5dfeb0e903e56f4eb27d34b2437c (diff)
Merge commit 'origin/master' into next
Conflicts: include/linux/kvm.h
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/bootmem.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/bootmem.c24
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/bootmem.c b/mm/bootmem.c
index 555d5d2731c..d1dc23cc7f1 100644
--- a/mm/bootmem.c
+++ b/mm/bootmem.c
@@ -143,6 +143,30 @@ unsigned long __init init_bootmem(unsigned long start, unsigned long pages)
return init_bootmem_core(NODE_DATA(0)->bdata, start, 0, pages);
}
+/*
+ * free_bootmem_late - free bootmem pages directly to page allocator
+ * @addr: starting address of the range
+ * @size: size of the range in bytes
+ *
+ * This is only useful when the bootmem allocator has already been torn
+ * down, but we are still initializing the system. Pages are given directly
+ * to the page allocator, no bootmem metadata is updated because it is gone.
+ */
+void __init free_bootmem_late(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size)
+{
+ unsigned long cursor, end;
+
+ kmemleak_free_part(__va(addr), size);
+
+ cursor = PFN_UP(addr);
+ end = PFN_DOWN(addr + size);
+
+ for (; cursor < end; cursor++) {
+ __free_pages_bootmem(pfn_to_page(cursor), 0);
+ totalram_pages++;
+ }
+}
+
static unsigned long __init free_all_bootmem_core(bootmem_data_t *bdata)
{
int aligned;