The patch titled mm: add alloc_pages_exact_nid() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-add-alloc_pages_exact_nid.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: mm: add alloc_pages_exact_nid() From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Add a alloc_pages_exact_nid() that allocates on a specific node. The naming is quite broken, but fixing that would need a larger renaming action. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/gfp.h | 2 + mm/page_alloc.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/gfp.h~mm-add-alloc_pages_exact_nid include/linux/gfp.h --- a/include/linux/gfp.h~mm-add-alloc_pages_exact_nid +++ a/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -353,6 +353,8 @@ extern unsigned long get_zeroed_page(gfp void *alloc_pages_exact(size_t size, gfp_t gfp_mask); void free_pages_exact(void *virt, size_t size); +/* This is different from alloc_pages_exact_node !!! */ +void *alloc_pages_exact_nid(int nid, size_t size, gfp_t gfp_mask); #define __get_free_page(gfp_mask) \ __get_free_pages((gfp_mask), 0) diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-add-alloc_pages_exact_nid mm/page_alloc.c --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-add-alloc_pages_exact_nid +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2317,6 +2317,21 @@ void free_pages(unsigned long addr, unsi EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_pages); +static void *make_alloc_exact(unsigned long addr, unsigned order, size_t size) +{ + if (addr) { + unsigned long alloc_end = addr + (PAGE_SIZE << order); + unsigned long used = addr + PAGE_ALIGN(size); + + split_page(virt_to_page((void *)addr), order); + while (used < alloc_end) { + free_page(used); + used += PAGE_SIZE; + } + } + return (void *)addr; +} + /** * alloc_pages_exact - allocate an exact number physically-contiguous pages. * @size: the number of bytes to allocate @@ -2336,22 +2351,31 @@ void *alloc_pages_exact(size_t size, gfp unsigned long addr; addr = __get_free_pages(gfp_mask, order); - if (addr) { - unsigned long alloc_end = addr + (PAGE_SIZE << order); - unsigned long used = addr + PAGE_ALIGN(size); - - split_page(virt_to_page((void *)addr), order); - while (used < alloc_end) { - free_page(used); - used += PAGE_SIZE; - } - } - - return (void *)addr; + return make_alloc_exact(addr, order, size); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_pages_exact); /** + * alloc_pages_exact_nid - allocate an exact number physically-contiguous pages on node. + * @size: the number of bytes to allocate + * @gfp_mask: GFP flags for the allocation + * + * Like alloc_pages_exact, but try to allocate on node nid first + * before falling back. + * Note this is not alloc_pages_exact_node() which allocates + * on a specific node, but is not exact. + */ +void *alloc_pages_exact_nid(int nid, size_t size, gfp_t gfp_mask) +{ + unsigned order = get_order(size); + struct page *p = alloc_pages_node(nid, gfp_mask, order); + if (!p) + return NULL; + return make_alloc_exact((unsigned long)page_address(p), order, size); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_pages_exact_nid); + +/** * free_pages_exact - release memory allocated via alloc_pages_exact() * @virt: the value returned by alloc_pages_exact. * @size: size of allocation, same value as passed to alloc_pages_exact(). _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch mm-add-alloc_pages_exact_nid.patch mm-add-alloc_pages_exact_nid-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm-add-alloc_pages_exact_nid-fix.patch memcg-allocate-memory-cgroup-structures-in-local-nodes.patch mm-rename-alloc_pages_exact.patch mm-make-new-alloc_pages_exact.patch mm-reuse-__free_pages_exact-in-__alloc_pages_exact.patch readahead-return-early-when-readahead-is-disabled.patch readahead-reduce-unnecessary-mmap_miss-increases.patch readahead-trigger-mmap-sequential-readahead-on-pg_readahead.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html