[PATCH 3/4] mm: vmalloc: add VM_DMA flag to indicate areas used bydma-mapping framework

From: Marek Szyprowski
Date: Fri Apr 13 2012 - 10:06:55 EST


Add new type of vm_area intented to be used for consisten mappings
created by dma-mapping framework.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/vmalloc.h | 1 +
mm/vmalloc.c | 3 +++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index 6071e91..8a9555a 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct; /* vma defining user mapping in mm_types.h */
#define VM_USERMAP 0x00000008 /* suitable for remap_vmalloc_range */
#define VM_VPAGES 0x00000010 /* buffer for pages was vmalloc'ed */
#define VM_UNLIST 0x00000020 /* vm_struct is not listed in vmlist */
+#define VM_DMA 0x00000040 /* used by dma-mapping framework */
/* bits [20..32] reserved for arch specific ioremap internals */

/*
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 8cb7f22..9c13bab 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2582,6 +2582,9 @@ static int s_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
if (v->flags & VM_IOREMAP)
seq_printf(m, " ioremap");

+ if (v->flags & VM_DMA)
+ seq_printf(m, " dma");
+
if (v->flags & VM_ALLOC)
seq_printf(m, " vmalloc");

--
1.7.1.569.g6f426

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