kernel-fxtec-pro1x/include/linux/vmalloc.h
Hugh Dickins 605d9288b3 mm: VM_flags comment fixes
Try to comment away a little of the confusion between mm's vm_area_struct
vm_flags and vmalloc's vm_struct flags: based on an idea by Ulrich Drepper.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-16 16:45:56 -07:00

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#ifndef _LINUX_VMALLOC_H
#define _LINUX_VMALLOC_H
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <asm/page.h> /* pgprot_t */
struct vm_area_struct; /* vma defining user mapping in mm_types.h */
/* bits in flags of vmalloc's vm_struct below */
#define VM_IOREMAP 0x00000001 /* ioremap() and friends */
#define VM_ALLOC 0x00000002 /* vmalloc() */
#define VM_MAP 0x00000004 /* vmap()ed pages */
#define VM_USERMAP 0x00000008 /* suitable for remap_vmalloc_range */
#define VM_VPAGES 0x00000010 /* buffer for pages was vmalloc'ed */
/* bits [20..32] reserved for arch specific ioremap internals */
/*
* Maximum alignment for ioremap() regions.
* Can be overriden by arch-specific value.
*/
#ifndef IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER
#define IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER (7 + PAGE_SHIFT) /* 128 pages */
#endif
struct vm_struct {
/* keep next,addr,size together to speedup lookups */
struct vm_struct *next;
void *addr;
unsigned long size;
unsigned long flags;
struct page **pages;
unsigned int nr_pages;
unsigned long phys_addr;
void *caller;
};
/*
* Highlevel APIs for driver use
*/
extern void *vmalloc(unsigned long size);
extern void *vmalloc_user(unsigned long size);
extern void *vmalloc_node(unsigned long size, int node);
extern void *vmalloc_exec(unsigned long size);
extern void *vmalloc_32(unsigned long size);
extern void *vmalloc_32_user(unsigned long size);
extern void *__vmalloc(unsigned long size, gfp_t gfp_mask, pgprot_t prot);
extern void *__vmalloc_area(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
pgprot_t prot);
extern void vfree(const void *addr);
extern void *vmap(struct page **pages, unsigned int count,
unsigned long flags, pgprot_t prot);
extern void vunmap(const void *addr);
extern int remap_vmalloc_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, void *addr,
unsigned long pgoff);
void vmalloc_sync_all(void);
/*
* Lowlevel-APIs (not for driver use!)
*/
static inline size_t get_vm_area_size(const struct vm_struct *area)
{
/* return actual size without guard page */
return area->size - PAGE_SIZE;
}
extern struct vm_struct *get_vm_area(unsigned long size, unsigned long flags);
extern struct vm_struct *get_vm_area_caller(unsigned long size,
unsigned long flags, void *caller);
extern struct vm_struct *__get_vm_area(unsigned long size, unsigned long flags,
unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
extern struct vm_struct *get_vm_area_node(unsigned long size,
unsigned long flags, int node,
gfp_t gfp_mask);
extern struct vm_struct *remove_vm_area(const void *addr);
extern int map_vm_area(struct vm_struct *area, pgprot_t prot,
struct page ***pages);
extern void unmap_kernel_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size);
/* 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..
*/
extern rwlock_t vmlist_lock;
extern struct vm_struct *vmlist;
extern const struct seq_operations vmalloc_op;
#endif /* _LINUX_VMALLOC_H */