The patch titled
uml: use get_free_pages to allocate kernel stacks
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
uml-use-get_free_pages-to-allocate-kernel-stacks.patch
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Subject: uml: use get_free_pages to allocate kernel stacks
From: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx>
For some reason, I was using kmalloc instead of get_free_pages for kernel
stacks.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/asm-um/thread_info.h | 6 ++++--
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN include/asm-um/thread_info.h~uml-use-get_free_pages-to-allocate-kernel-stacks include/asm-um/thread_info.h
--- a/include/asm-um/thread_info.h~uml-use-get_free_pages-to-allocate-kernel-stacks
+++ a/include/asm-um/thread_info.h
@@ -54,8 +54,10 @@ static inline struct thread_info *curren
/* thread information allocation */
#define alloc_thread_info(tsk) \
- ((struct thread_info *) kmalloc(THREAD_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL))
-#define free_thread_info(ti) kfree(ti)
+ ((struct thread_info *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, \
+ CONFIG_KERNEL_STACK_ORDER))
+#define free_thread_info(ti) \
+ free_pages((unsigned long)(ti),CONFIG_KERNEL_STACK_ORDER)
#endif
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx are
hostfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
uml-fix-request-sector-update.patch
uml-use-get_free_pages-to-allocate-kernel-stacks.patch
uml-add-stack-usage-monitoring.patch
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