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authorPaul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>2014-06-17 17:30:23 -0400
committerPaul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>2014-06-17 17:30:23 -0400
commit170b5910d9fbea79de1bb40df22eda5f98250c0c (patch)
treeca9560e878d2842d45c6f99077d0d8b8f8b0f9ba /mm/vmalloc.c
parent47dd0b76ace953bd2c0479076db0d3e3b9594003 (diff)
parent1860e379875dfe7271c649058aeddffe5afd9d0d (diff)
Merge tag 'v3.15' into next
Linux 3.15
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmalloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 0fdf96803c5..bf233b28331 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@
#include <linux/pfn.h>
#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
#include <linux/atomic.h>
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <linux/llist.h>
+
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
#include <asm/shmparam.h>
@@ -1083,6 +1085,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_unmap_ram);
* @node: prefer to allocate data structures on this node
* @prot: memory protection to use. PAGE_KERNEL for regular RAM
*
+ * If you use this function for less than VMAP_MAX_ALLOC pages, it could be
+ * faster than vmap so it's good. But if you mix long-life and short-life
+ * objects with vm_map_ram(), it could consume lots of address space through
+ * fragmentation (especially on a 32bit machine). You could see failures in
+ * the end. Please use this function for short-lived objects.
+ *
* Returns: a pointer to the address that has been mapped, or %NULL on failure
*/
void *vm_map_ram(struct page **pages, unsigned int count, int node, pgprot_t prot)
@@ -2181,7 +2189,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(remap_vmalloc_range);
* Implement a stub for vmalloc_sync_all() if the architecture chose not to
* have one.
*/
-void __attribute__((weak)) vmalloc_sync_all(void)
+void __weak vmalloc_sync_all(void)
{
}