arch_rebalance_pgtables call
authorMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Tue, 5 Feb 2008 06:29:16 +0000 (22:29 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 5 Feb 2008 17:44:18 +0000 (09:44 -0800)
In order to change the layout of the page tables after an mmap has crossed the
adress space limit of the current page table layout a architecture hook in
get_unmapped_area is needed.  The arguments are the address of the new mapping
and the length of it.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/mmap.c

index 8295577..bb4c963 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
 #define arch_mmap_check(addr, len, flags)      (0)
 #endif
 
+#ifndef arch_rebalance_pgtables
+#define arch_rebalance_pgtables(addr, len)             (addr)
+#endif
+
 static void unmap_region(struct mm_struct *mm,
                struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct *prev,
                unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
@@ -1424,7 +1428,7 @@ get_unmapped_area(struct file *file, unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
        if (addr & ~PAGE_MASK)
                return -EINVAL;
 
-       return addr;
+       return arch_rebalance_pgtables(addr, len);
 }
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_unmapped_area);