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linux/mm
Timur Tabi 2be0ffe2b2 mm: add alloc_pages_exact() and free_pages_exact()
alloc_pages_exact() is similar to alloc_pages(), except that it allocates
the minimum number of pages to fulfill the request.  This is useful if you
want to allocate a very large buffer that is slightly larger than an even
power-of-two number of pages.  In that case, alloc_pages() will waste a
lot of memory.

I have a video driver that wants to allocate a 5MB buffer.  alloc_pages()
wiill waste 3MB of physically-contiguous memory.

Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:20 -07:00
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allocpercpu.c Merge commit 'v2.6.26-rc9' into cpus4096 2008-07-06 14:23:39 +02:00
backing-dev.c mm: bdi: fix race in bdi_class device creation 2008-05-20 13:31:53 -07:00
bootmem.c bootmem: replace node_boot_start in struct bootmem_data 2008-07-24 10:47:20 -07:00
bounce.c
dmapool.c dmapool: enable debugging for CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON too 2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
fadvise.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
filemap_xip.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
filemap.c generic_file_aio_read() cleanups 2008-07-24 10:47:16 -07:00
fremap.c mm: fix various kernel-doc comments 2008-03-19 18:53:35 -07:00
highmem.c highmem: Export totalhigh_pages. 2008-07-19 22:39:46 -07:00
hugetlb.c hugetlb: quota is not freed for unused reserved private huge pages 2008-07-24 10:47:19 -07:00
internal.h mm: export prep_compound_page to mm 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
Kconfig Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6 2008-07-14 13:37:29 -07:00
maccess.c kgdb: fix optional arch functions and probe_kernel_* 2008-04-17 20:05:39 +02:00
madvise.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
Makefile mm: remove mm_init compilation dependency on CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg: simple stats for memory resource controller 2008-05-01 08:04:02 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: drop unneeded pgdat argument from free_area_init_node() 2008-07-24 10:47:16 -07:00
memory.c hugetlb: introduce pud_huge 2008-07-24 10:47:18 -07:00
mempolicy.c hugetlb: modular state for hugetlb page size 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
mempool.c
migrate.c mm/migrate.c should #include <linux/syscalls.h> 2008-07-24 10:47:14 -07:00
mincore.c mm: remove nopage 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
mlock.c
mm_init.c mm: create /sys/kernel/mm 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
mmap.c hugetlb: modular state for hugetlb page size 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
mmzone.c mm: filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask 2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00
mprotect.c mm: record MAP_NORESERVE status on vmas and fix small page mprotect reservations 2008-07-24 10:47:16 -07:00
mremap.c
msync.c
nommu.c nommu: Correct kobjsize() page validity checks. 2008-06-12 07:56:17 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom_kill: remove unused parameter in badness() 2008-04-28 08:58:26 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm: add alloc_pages_exact() and free_pages_exact() 2008-07-24 10:47:20 -07:00
page_io.c mm: fix PageUptodate data race 2008-02-05 09:44:19 -08:00
page_isolation.c memory hotremove: unset migrate type "ISOLATE" after removal 2007-11-14 18:45:38 -08:00
page-writeback.c Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 2008-07-15 08:36:38 -07:00
pagewalk.c pagemap: pass mm into pagewalkers 2008-06-12 18:05:41 -07:00
pdflush.c mm/pdflush.c: merge the same code in two path 2008-05-13 08:02:24 -07:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c quicklists: Only consider memory that can be used with GFP_KERNEL 2008-01-14 08:52:22 -08:00
readahead.c mm: bdi: export BDI attributes in sysfs 2008-04-30 08:29:49 -07:00
rmap.c mm: remove nopage 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
shmem_acl.c
shmem.c tmpfs: support aio 2008-07-24 10:47:16 -07:00
slab.c Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
slob.c slob: record page flag overlays explicitly 2008-07-24 10:47:15 -07:00
slub.c slub: record page flag overlays explicitly 2008-07-24 10:47:15 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c Christoph has moved 2008-07-04 10:40:04 -07:00
sparse.c mm: make defensive checks around PFN values registered for memory usage 2008-07-24 10:47:13 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: bdi: add separate writeback accounting capability 2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
swap.c mm: fix atomic_t overflow in vm 2008-05-24 09:56:09 -07:00
swapfile.c mm: use non-racy method for /proc/swaps creation 2008-04-29 08:06:20 -07:00
thrash.c
tiny-shmem.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2008-03-25 08:57:47 -07:00
truncate.c fix invalidate_inode_pages2_range() to not clear ret 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
util.c fix mm/util.c:krealloc() 2007-11-14 18:45:41 -08:00
vmalloc.c vmallocinfo: add NUMA information 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: fix incorrect variable type in do_try_to_free_pages() 2008-06-12 18:05:39 -07:00
vmstat.c mm/vmstat.c: proper externs 2008-07-24 10:47:14 -07:00