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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>2007-07-18 05:37:04 +0400
committerJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2007-07-18 19:47:41 +0400
commit5f4352fbffd6c45123dbce9e195efd54df4e177e (patch)
treee2a0316e2f2d22c266e7cae3015ddc0f2f77f64f /include/linux/vmalloc.h
parentbdef40a6af64a0140a65df49bf504124d57094a9 (diff)
downloadlinux-5f4352fbffd6c45123dbce9e195efd54df4e177e.tar.xz
Allocate and free vmalloc areas
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@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@muc.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/vmalloc.h')
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diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index 132b260aef1e..c2b10cae5da5 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ 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..
*/