mm: add a vmap_pfn function
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Sat, 17 Oct 2020 23:15:10 +0000 (16:15 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 18 Oct 2020 16:27:10 +0000 (09:27 -0700)
commit3e9a9e256b1e1e6e8f19faf76fa9c37578ae35ee
tree241415091329c60aab89e0cca627c762567e6931
parentb944afc9d64ddf1b6a152c23ff86bf26e1fd430c
mm: add a vmap_pfn function

Add a proper helper to remap PFNs into kernel virtual space so that
drivers don't have to abuse alloc_vm_area and open coded PTE manipulation
for it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201002122204.1534411-4-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/vmalloc.h
mm/Kconfig
mm/vmalloc.c