linux/arch/unicore32
Joonsoo Kim ef93247325 mm, vmalloc: change iterating a vmlist to find_vm_area()
This patchset removes vm_struct list management after initializing
vmalloc.  Adding and removing an entry to vmlist is linear time
complexity, so it is inefficient.  If we maintain this list, overall
time complexity of adding and removing area to vmalloc space is O(N),
although we use rbtree for finding vacant place and it's time complexity
is just O(logN).

And vmlist and vmlist_lock is used many places of outside of vmalloc.c.
It is preferable that we hide this raw data structure and provide
well-defined function for supporting them, because it makes that they
cannot mistake when manipulating theses structure and it makes us easily
maintain vmalloc layer.

For kexec and makedumpfile, I export vmap_area_list, instead of vmlist.
This comes from Atsushi's recommendation.  For more information, please
refer below link.  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/6/184

This patch:

The purpose of iterating a vmlist is finding vm area with specific virtual
address.  find_vm_area() is provided for this purpose and more efficient,
because it uses a rbtree.  So change it.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29 15:54:33 -07:00
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boot Kbuild: centralize MKIMAGE and cmd_uimage definitions 2012-03-26 15:49:20 +02:00
configs unicore32: add KBUILD_DEFCONFIG with unicore32_defconfig (old debug_defconfig) 2011-06-09 16:24:42 +08:00
include Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-12-20 18:05:28 -08:00
kernel The sweeping change is to make add_taint() explicitly indicate whether to disable 2013-02-25 15:41:43 -08:00
lib unicore32: fix build error for find bitops 2011-11-15 17:13:14 +08:00
mm mm, vmalloc: change iterating a vmlist to find_vm_area() 2013-04-29 15:54:33 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed 2013-03-12 11:16:40 -07:00
Kconfig.debug unicore32: drop unused Kconfig symbols 2011-11-15 17:13:18 +08:00
Makefile unicore32: Use generic init_task 2012-05-05 13:00:26 +02:00