From b944afc9d64ddf1b6a152c23ff86bf26e1fd430c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 16:15:06 -0700 Subject: mm: add a VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES flag for vmap Add a flag so that vmap takes ownership of the passed in page array. When vfree is called on such an allocation it will put one reference on each page, and free the page array itself. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Chris Wilson Cc: Jani Nikula Cc: Joonas Lahtinen Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Matthew Auld Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rodrigo Vivi Cc: Stefano Stabellini Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201002122204.1534411-3-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmalloc.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index 74af03a2a769..63b19a571be7 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -2377,8 +2377,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vunmap); * @flags: vm_area->flags * @prot: page protection for the mapping * - * Maps @count pages from @pages into contiguous kernel virtual - * space. + * Maps @count pages from @pages into contiguous kernel virtual space. + * If @flags contains %VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES the ownership of the pages array itself + * (which must be kmalloc or vmalloc memory) and one reference per pages in it + * are transferred from the caller to vmap(), and will be freed / dropped when + * vfree() is called on the return value. * * Return: the address of the area or %NULL on failure */ @@ -2404,6 +2407,8 @@ void *vmap(struct page **pages, unsigned int count, return NULL; } + if (flags & VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES) + area->pages = pages; return area->addr; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmap); -- cgit v1.2.1