From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 005F96B0204 for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 05:49:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: by pva4 with SMTP id 4so462304pva.14 for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 02:49:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Changli Gao Subject: [PATCH 0/9] mm: generic adaptive large memory allocation APIs Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 17:49:07 +0800 Message-Id: <1273744147-7594-1-git-send-email-xiaosuo@gmail.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Hoang-Nam Nguyen , Christoph Raisch , Roland Dreier , Sean Hefty , Hal Rosenstock , Divy Le Ray , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Theodore Ts'o , Andreas Dilger , Alexander Viro , Paul Menage , Li Zefan , linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, Changli Gao List-ID: generic adaptive large memory allocation APIs kv*alloc are used to allocate large contiguous memory and the users don't mind whether the memory is physically or virtually contiguous. The allocator always try its best to allocate physically contiguous memory first. In this patch set, some APIs are introduced: kvmalloc(), kvzalloc(), kvcalloc(), kvrealloc(), kvfree() and kvfree_inatomic(). Some code are converted to use the new generic APIs instead. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao ---- drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ipz_pt_fn.c | 22 +----- drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_defs.h | 2 drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.c | 31 --------- drivers/net/cxgb3/l2t.c | 4 - drivers/net/cxgb4/cxgb4.h | 3 drivers/net/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c | 37 +---------- drivers/net/cxgb4/l2t.c | 2 drivers/scsi/cxgb3i/cxgb3i_ddp.c | 12 +-- drivers/scsi/cxgb3i/cxgb3i_ddp.h | 26 ------- drivers/scsi/cxgb3i/cxgb3i_offload.c | 6 - fs/ext4/super.c | 21 +----- fs/file.c | 109 ++++----------------------------- include/linux/mm.h | 31 +++++++++ include/linux/vmalloc.h | 1 kernel/cgroup.c | 47 +------------- kernel/relay.c | 35 ---------- mm/nommu.c | 6 + mm/util.c | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ mm/vmalloc.c | 14 ++++ 19 files changed, 207 insertions(+), 306 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org