Re: [PATCH 1/5] vmalloc: introduce __vmalloc_area() function

[Russell King]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 09:56:35PM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> There are 3 copy-and-paste implementations of __vmalloc() in
> arch/{arm,sparc64,x86_64}/kernel/module.c.

There is actually a similar copy in arch/arm/mm/consistent.c, but at the
time I cleaned it up to be something saner.  With some tweaks (such as
adding a struct vm_region_head which contains the spinlock, as well as
the start/end and list) we essentially end up with a generic memory
region allocator suitable for vmalloc, ioremap, module stuff, and so
forth.

If anyone's interested in that, I'll sort out those tweaks.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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