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authorAndrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>2016-12-12 16:44:10 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-12-12 18:55:08 -0800
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mm: add vfree_atomic()
We are going to use sleeping lock for freeing vmap. However some vfree() users want to free memory from atomic (but not from interrupt) context. For this we add vfree_atomic() - deferred variation of vfree() which can be used in any atomic context (except NMIs). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment grammar] [aryabinin@virtuozzo.com: use raw_cpu_ptr() instead of this_cpu_ptr()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481553981-3856-1-git-send-email-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479474236-4139-5-git-send-email-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: John Dias <joaodias@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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