Commit 0d08e0d3 authored by Andi Kleen's avatar Andi Kleen Committed by Andi Kleen
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[PATCH] x86-64: Fix vmalloc_32 to really allocate <4GB on 64bit platforms 



Ugly ifdef, but should handle all 64bit platforms that have suitable
zones. On some like Altix it's probably impossible without IOMMU
use to get memory <4GB this way,  but they have to live with that.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
parent bbf30a16

mm/vmalloc.c

+11 −3
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask, 
		area->flags |= VM_VPAGES;

	} else {

		pages = kmalloc_node(array_size,

				(gfp_mask & ~(__GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO)),

				(gfp_mask & GFP_LEVEL_MASK),

				node);

	}

	area->pages = pages;
@@ -577,6 +577,14 @@ void *vmalloc_exec(unsigned long size) 
	return __vmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC);

}



#if defined(CONFIG_64BIT) && defined(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32)

#define GFP_VMALLOC32 GFP_DMA32

#elif defined(CONFIG_64BIT) && defined(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA)

#define GFP_VMALLOC32 GFP_DMA

#else

#define GFP_VMALLOC32 GFP_KERNEL

#endif



/**

 *	vmalloc_32  -  allocate virtually contiguous memory (32bit addressable)

 *	@size:		allocation size
@@ -586,7 +594,7 @@ void *vmalloc_exec(unsigned long size) 
 */

void *vmalloc_32(unsigned long size)

{

	return __vmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL);

	return __vmalloc(size, GFP_VMALLOC32, PAGE_KERNEL);

}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_32);
@@ -602,7 +610,7 @@ void *vmalloc_32_user(unsigned long size) 
	struct vm_struct *area;

	void *ret;



	ret = __vmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, PAGE_KERNEL);

	ret = __vmalloc(size, GFP_VMALLOC32 | __GFP_ZERO, PAGE_KERNEL);

	if (ret) {

		write_lock(&vmlist_lock);

		area = __find_vm_area(ret);