From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>,
David McCullough <david_mccullough@au.securecomputing.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nommu: Add new vmalloc_user() and remap_vmalloc_range() interfaces.
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:39:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15288.1196260797@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071128084914.GA28486@linux-sh.org>
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> wrote:
> This builds on top of the earlier vmalloc_32_user() work introduced by
> b50731732f926d6c49fd0724616a7344c31cd5cf, as we now have places in the
> nommu allmodconfig that hit up against these missing APIs.
>
> As vmalloc_32_user() is already implemented, this is moved over to
> vmalloc_user() and simply made a wrapper. As all current nommu platforms
> are 32-bit addressable, there's no special casing we have to do for
> ZONE_DMA and things of that nature as per GFP_VMALLOC32.
>
> remap_vmalloc_range() needs to check VM_USERMAP in order to figure out
> whether we permit the remap or not, which means that we also have to
> rework the vmalloc_user() code to grovel for the VMA and set the flag.
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-28 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-28 8:49 nommu: Add new vmalloc_user() and remap_vmalloc_range() interfaces Paul Mundt
2007-11-28 10:18 ` David McCullough
2007-11-28 14:39 ` David Howells [this message]
2007-11-29 6:17 ` Greg Ungerer
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