vmalloc: introduce remap_vmalloc_range_partial

We want to allocate ELF note segment buffer on the 2nd kernel in vmalloc
space and remap it to user-space in order to reduce the risk that memory
allocation fails on system with huge number of CPUs and so with huge ELF
note segment that exceeds 11-order block size.

Although there's already remap_vmalloc_range for the purpose of
remapping vmalloc memory to user-space, we need to specify user-space
range via vma.
 Mmap on /proc/vmcore needs to remap range across multiple objects, so
the interface that requires vma to cover full range is problematic.

This patch introduces remap_vmalloc_range_partial that receives user-space
range as a pair of base address and size and can be used for mmap on
/proc/vmcore case.

remap_vmalloc_range is rewritten using remap_vmalloc_range_partial.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use PAGE_ALIGNED()]
Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Lisa Mitchell <lisa.mitchell@hp.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index 7d5773a99f20..dd0a2c810529 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ extern void *vmap(struct page **pages, unsigned int count,
 			unsigned long flags, pgprot_t prot);
 extern void vunmap(const void *addr);
 
+extern int remap_vmalloc_range_partial(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+				       unsigned long uaddr, void *kaddr,
+				       unsigned long size);
+
 extern int remap_vmalloc_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, void *addr,
 							unsigned long pgoff);
 void vmalloc_sync_all(void);