Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/pat

Reason: Change to is_new_memtype_allowed() in x86/urgent

Resolved semantic conflicts in:

	 arch/x86/mm/pat.c
	 arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nodemask.h b/include/linux/nodemask.h
index 829b94b..b359c4a 100644
--- a/include/linux/nodemask.h
+++ b/include/linux/nodemask.h
@@ -82,6 +82,12 @@
  *    to generate slightly worse code.  So use a simple one-line #define
  *    for node_isset(), instead of wrapping an inline inside a macro, the
  *    way we do the other calls.
+ *
+ * NODEMASK_SCRATCH
+ * When doing above logical AND, OR, XOR, Remap operations the callers tend to
+ * need temporary nodemask_t's on the stack. But if NODES_SHIFT is large,
+ * nodemask_t's consume too much stack space.  NODEMASK_SCRATCH is a helper
+ * for such situations. See below and CPUMASK_ALLOC also.
  */
 
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
@@ -473,4 +479,26 @@ static inline int num_node_state(enum node_states state)
 #define for_each_node(node)	   for_each_node_state(node, N_POSSIBLE)
 #define for_each_online_node(node) for_each_node_state(node, N_ONLINE)
 
+/*
+ * For nodemask scrach area.(See CPUMASK_ALLOC() in cpumask.h)
+ */
+
+#if NODES_SHIFT > 8 /* nodemask_t > 64 bytes */
+#define NODEMASK_ALLOC(x, m) struct x *m = kmalloc(sizeof(*m), GFP_KERNEL)
+#define NODEMASK_FREE(m) kfree(m)
+#else
+#define NODEMASK_ALLOC(x, m) struct x _m, *m = &_m
+#define NODEMASK_FREE(m)
+#endif
+
+/* A example struture for using NODEMASK_ALLOC, used in mempolicy. */
+struct nodemask_scratch {
+	nodemask_t	mask1;
+	nodemask_t	mask2;
+};
+
+#define NODEMASK_SCRATCH(x) NODEMASK_ALLOC(nodemask_scratch, x)
+#define NODEMASK_SCRATCH_FREE(x)  NODEMASK_FREE(x)
+
+
 #endif /* __LINUX_NODEMASK_H */