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author | Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> | 2016-12-12 16:44:10 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -0800 |
commit | bf22e37a641327e34681b7b6959d9646e3886770 (patch) | |
tree | 1b672d3f1579da486197e2abd4df6990c4f61158 /kernel/fork.c | |
parent | 0574ecd141df28d573d4364adec59766ddf5f38d (diff) | |
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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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