mm/page_alloc: add alloc_contig_pages()
authorAnshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Sun, 1 Dec 2019 01:55:06 +0000 (17:55 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 1 Dec 2019 20:59:06 +0000 (12:59 -0800)
commit5e27a2df03b8933aa7c1579816ecb6a071bb0e0d
tree6fb8f3565c960331698124f67eb6bcbe8efcbc33
parent0609ae011deb41c9629b7f5fd626dfa1ac9d16b0
mm/page_alloc: add alloc_contig_pages()

HugeTLB helper alloc_gigantic_page() implements fairly generic
allocation method where it scans over various zones looking for a large
contiguous pfn range before trying to allocate it with
alloc_contig_range().

Other than deriving the requested order from 'struct hstate', there is
nothing HugeTLB specific in there.  This can be made available for
general use to allocate contiguous memory which could not have been
allocated through the buddy allocator.

alloc_gigantic_page() has been split carving out actual allocation
method which is then made available via new alloc_contig_pages() helper
wrapped under CONFIG_CONTIG_ALLOC.  All references to 'gigantic' have
been replaced with more generic term 'contig'.  Allocated pages here
should be freed with free_contig_range() or by calling __free_page() on
each allocated page.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571300646-32240-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pavel.tatashin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/gfp.h
mm/hugetlb.c
mm/page_alloc.c