android: binder: use VM_ALLOC to get vm area
authorGanesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com>
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 02:49:05 +0000 (10:49 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 09:46:42 +0000 (10:46 +0100)
commitaac6830ec1cb681544212838911cdc57f2638216
tree2e018423090fee9e5999e2e4ec343fc088a0267e
parent197410ad884eb18b31d48e9d8e64cb5a9e326f2f
android: binder: use VM_ALLOC to get vm area

VM_IOREMAP is used to access hardware through a mechanism called
I/O mapped memory. Android binder is a IPC machanism which will
not access I/O memory.

And VM_IOREMAP has alignment requiement which may not needed in
binder.
    __get_vm_area_node()
    {
    ...
        if (flags & VM_IOREMAP)
            align = 1ul << clamp_t(int, fls_long(size),
               PAGE_SHIFT, IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER);
    ...
    }

This patch will save some kernel vm area, especially for 32bit os.

In 32bit OS, kernel vm area is only 240MB. We may got below
error when launching a app:

<3>[ 4482.440053] binder_alloc: binder_alloc_mmap_handler: 15728 8ce67000-8cf65000 get_vm_area failed -12
<3>[ 4483.218817] binder_alloc: binder_alloc_mmap_handler: 15745 8ce67000-8cf65000 get_vm_area failed -12

Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Acked-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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drivers/android/binder_alloc.c