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authorTimur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>2008-07-24 08:28:11 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-24 21:47:20 +0400
commit2be0ffe2b29bd31d3debd0877797892ff2d91f4c (patch)
tree7f6e56b3fc5a721296851448e3facf821ef543dd /mm
parent3560e249abda6bee41a07a7bf0383a6e193e2839 (diff)
downloadlinux-2be0ffe2b29bd31d3debd0877797892ff2d91f4c.tar.xz
mm: add alloc_pages_exact() and free_pages_exact()
alloc_pages_exact() is similar to alloc_pages(), except that it allocates the minimum number of pages to fulfill the request. This is useful if you want to allocate a very large buffer that is slightly larger than an even power-of-two number of pages. In that case, alloc_pages() will waste a lot of memory. I have a video driver that wants to allocate a 5MB buffer. alloc_pages() wiill waste 3MB of physically-contiguous memory. Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c53
1 files changed, 53 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index eaa86671ebbd..8d528d57b403 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1697,6 +1697,59 @@ void free_pages(unsigned long addr, unsigned int order)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_pages);
+/**
+ * alloc_pages_exact - allocate an exact number physically-contiguous pages.
+ * @size: the number of bytes to allocate
+ * @gfp_mask: GFP flags for the allocation
+ *
+ * This function is similar to alloc_pages(), except that it allocates the
+ * minimum number of pages to satisfy the request. alloc_pages() can only
+ * allocate memory in power-of-two pages.
+ *
+ * This function is also limited by MAX_ORDER.
+ *
+ * Memory allocated by this function must be released by free_pages_exact().
+ */
+void *alloc_pages_exact(size_t size, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+ unsigned int order = get_order(size);
+ unsigned long addr;
+
+ addr = __get_free_pages(gfp_mask, order);
+ if (addr) {
+ unsigned long alloc_end = addr + (PAGE_SIZE << order);
+ unsigned long used = addr + PAGE_ALIGN(size);
+
+ split_page(virt_to_page(addr), order);
+ while (used < alloc_end) {
+ free_page(used);
+ used += PAGE_SIZE;
+ }
+ }
+
+ return (void *)addr;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_pages_exact);
+
+/**
+ * free_pages_exact - release memory allocated via alloc_pages_exact()
+ * @virt: the value returned by alloc_pages_exact.
+ * @size: size of allocation, same value as passed to alloc_pages_exact().
+ *
+ * Release the memory allocated by a previous call to alloc_pages_exact.
+ */
+void free_pages_exact(void *virt, size_t size)
+{
+ unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)virt;
+ unsigned long end = addr + PAGE_ALIGN(size);
+
+ while (addr < end) {
+ free_page(addr);
+ addr += PAGE_SIZE;
+ }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_pages_exact);
+
static unsigned int nr_free_zone_pages(int offset)
{
struct zoneref *z;