[Xen-devel] [patch 14/44] Allocate and free vmalloc areas

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Allocate/release a chunk of vmalloc address space:
 alloc_vm_area reserves a chunk of address space, and makes sure all
 the pagetables are constructed for that address range - but no pages.

 free_vm_area releases the address space range.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@xxxxxx>

---
 include/linux/vmalloc.h |    4 +++
 mm/vmalloc.c            |   53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+)

===================================================================
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ extern int map_vm_area(struct vm_struct 
                        struct page ***pages);
 extern void unmap_vm_area(struct vm_struct *area);
 
+/* Allocate/destroy a 'vmalloc' VM area. */
+extern struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(size_t size);
+extern void free_vm_area(struct vm_struct *area);
+
 /*
  *     Internals.  Dont't use..
  */
===================================================================
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -762,3 +762,56 @@ void  __attribute__((weak)) vmalloc_sync
 void  __attribute__((weak)) vmalloc_sync_all(void)
 {
 }
+
+
+static int f(pte_t *pte, struct page *pmd_page, unsigned long addr, void *data)
+{
+       /* apply_to_page_range() does all the hard work. */
+       return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ *     alloc_vm_area - allocate a range of kernel address space
+ *     @size:          size of the area
+ *     @returns:       NULL on failure, vm_struct on success
+ *
+ *     This function reserves a range of kernel address space, and
+ *     allocates pagetables to map that range.  No actual mappings
+ *     are created.  If the kernel address space is not shared
+ *     between processes, it syncs the pagetable across all
+ *     processes.
+ */
+struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(size_t size)
+{
+       struct vm_struct *area;
+
+       area = get_vm_area(size, VM_IOREMAP);
+       if (area == NULL)
+               return NULL;
+
+       /*
+        * This ensures that page tables are constructed for this region
+        * of kernel virtual address space and mapped into init_mm.
+        */
+       if (apply_to_page_range(&init_mm, (unsigned long)area->addr,
+                               area->size, f, NULL)) {
+               free_vm_area(area);
+               return NULL;
+       }
+
+       /* Make sure the pagetables are constructed in process kernel
+          mappings */
+       vmalloc_sync_all();
+
+       return area;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alloc_vm_area);
+
+void free_vm_area(struct vm_struct *area)
+{
+       struct vm_struct *ret;
+       ret = remove_vm_area(area->addr);
+       BUG_ON(ret != area);
+       kfree(area);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(free_vm_area);

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