From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: [PATCH 11 of 12] XPMEM would have used sys_madvise() except that madvise_dontneed() Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:51:27 +0200 Message-ID: <128d705f38c8a774ac11.1208872287@duo.random> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Nick Piggin , Steve Wise , Peter Zijlstra , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Kanoj Sarcar , Roland Dreier , Jack Steiner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity , linux-mm@kvack.org, Robin Holt , general@lists.openfabrics.org, Hugh Dickins , akpm@linux-foundation.org To: Christoph Lameter Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org # HG changeset patch # User Andrea Arcangeli # Date 1208872187 -7200 # Node ID 128d705f38c8a774ac11559db445787ce6e91c77 # Parent f8210c45f1c6f8b38d15e5dfebbc5f7c1f890c93 XPMEM would have used sys_madvise() except that madvise_dontneed() returns an -EINVAL if VM_PFNMAP is set, which is always true for the pages XPMEM imports from other partitions and is also true for uncached pages allocated locally via the mspec allocator. XPMEM needs zap_page_range() functionality for these types of pages as well as 'normal' pages. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -909,6 +909,7 @@ return unmap_vmas(vma, address, end, &nr_accounted, details); } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(zap_page_range); /* * Do a quick page-table lookup for a single page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone