2.6.28-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Ivan Kokshaysky commit 822c18f2e38cbc775792ab65ace4f9198678dec9 upstream. On alpha, we have to map some stuff in the VMALLOC space very early in the boot process (to make SRM console callbacks work and so on, see arch/alpha/mm/init.c). For old VM allocator, we just manually placed a vm_struct onto the global vmlist and this worked for ages. Unfortunately, the new allocator isn't aware of this, so it constantly tries to allocate the VM space which is already in use, making vmalloc on alpha defunct. This patch forces KVA to import vmlist entries on init. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded check (per Johannes)] Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/vmalloc.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -960,6 +961,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_map_ram); void __init vmalloc_init(void) { + struct vmap_area *va; + struct vm_struct *tmp; int i; for_each_possible_cpu(i) { @@ -972,6 +975,14 @@ void __init vmalloc_init(void) vbq->nr_dirty = 0; } + /* Import existing vmlist entries. */ + for (tmp = vmlist; tmp; tmp = tmp->next) { + va = alloc_bootmem(sizeof(struct vmap_area)); + va->flags = tmp->flags | VM_VM_AREA; + va->va_start = (unsigned long)tmp->addr; + va->va_end = va->va_start + tmp->size; + __insert_vmap_area(va); + } vmap_initialized = true; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/