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author | James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> | 2009-06-12 10:02:03 -0500 |
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committer | James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> | 2009-06-12 10:02:03 -0500 |
commit | 82681a318f9f028ea64e61f24bbd9ac535531921 (patch) | |
tree | 529b6a5b4fd040fb54b7672b1a224ebd47445876 /include/linux/mmzone.h | |
parent | 3860c97bd60a4525bb62eb90e3e7d2f02662ac59 (diff) | |
parent | 8ebf975608aaebd7feb33d77f07ba21a6380e086 (diff) |
[SCSI] Merge branch 'linus'
Conflicts:
drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c
fixed up conflict between req->data_len accessors and mptsas driver updates.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mmzone.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mmzone.h | 26 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 186ec6ab334..a47c879e130 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -1097,6 +1097,32 @@ unsigned long __init node_memmap_size_bytes(int, unsigned long, unsigned long); #define pfn_valid_within(pfn) (1) #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL +/* + * pfn_valid() is meant to be able to tell if a given PFN has valid memmap + * associated with it or not. In FLATMEM, it is expected that holes always + * have valid memmap as long as there is valid PFNs either side of the hole. + * In SPARSEMEM, it is assumed that a valid section has a memmap for the + * entire section. + * + * However, an ARM, and maybe other embedded architectures in the future + * free memmap backing holes to save memory on the assumption the memmap is + * never used. The page_zone linkages are then broken even though pfn_valid() + * returns true. A walker of the full memmap must then do this additional + * check to ensure the memmap they are looking at is sane by making sure + * the zone and PFN linkages are still valid. This is expensive, but walkers + * of the full memmap are extremely rare. + */ +int memmap_valid_within(unsigned long pfn, + struct page *page, struct zone *zone); +#else +static inline int memmap_valid_within(unsigned long pfn, + struct page *page, struct zone *zone) +{ + return 1; +} +#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL */ + #endif /* !__GENERATING_BOUNDS.H */ #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */ #endif /* _LINUX_MMZONE_H */ |