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* [RFC][PATCH v2 03/23] (avr32) __vmalloc: add gfp flags variant of pte and pmd allocation
@ 2011-03-14 17:32 Prasad Joshi
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From: Prasad Joshi @ 2011-03-14 17:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Hans-Christian Egtvedt, linux-kernel, linux-mm, linux-arch

__vmalloc: propagating GFP allocation flag.

- adds functions to allow caller to pass the GFP flag for memory allocation
- helps in fixing the Bug 30702 (__vmalloc(GFP_NOFS) can callback
		  file system evict_inode).

Signed-off-by: Anand Mitra <mitra@kqinfotech.com>
Signed-off-by: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi124@gmail.com>
---
Chnagelog:
arch/avr32/include/asm/pgalloc.h |    8 +++++++-
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/arch/avr32/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/avr32/include/asm/pgalloc.h
index bc7e8ae..cb88080 100644
--- a/arch/avr32/include/asm/pgalloc.h
+++ b/arch/avr32/include/asm/pgalloc.h
@@ -51,10 +51,16 @@ static inline void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm,
pgd_t *pgd)
 	quicklist_free(QUICK_PGD, NULL, pgd);
 }

+static inline pte_t *__pte_alloc_one_kernel(struct mm_struct *mm,
+					  unsigned long address, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+	return quicklist_alloc(QUICK_PT, gfp_mask, NULL);
+}
+
 static inline pte_t *pte_alloc_one_kernel(struct mm_struct *mm,
 					  unsigned long address)
 {
-	return quicklist_alloc(QUICK_PT, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT, NULL);
+	return __pte_alloc_one_kernel(mm, address, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT);
 }

 static inline pgtable_t pte_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm,

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