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MIPS: topdown mmap support
authorJian Peng <jipeng2005@gmail.com>
Tue, 17 May 2011 19:27:49 +0000 (12:27 -0700)
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:26:51 +0000 (17:26 +0100)
commit82bf44c0503534d32d8ef53a05592657e4edc199
tree3ba987eb48751ab94b75bb2e74e4e33b89192b34
parentd36a4945115cf320acbfbf58cac194dee5e2807f
MIPS: topdown mmap support

This patch introduced topdown mmap support in user process address
space allocation policy.

Recently, we ran some large applications that use mmap heavily and
lead to OOM due to inflexible mmap allocation policy on MIPS32.

Since most other major archs supported it for years, it is reasonable
to follow the trend and reduce the pain of porting applications.

Due to cache aliasing concern, arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown() and
other helper functions are implemented in arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c.

Signed-off-by: Jian Peng <jipeng2005@gmail.com>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2389/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h
arch/mips/mm/mmap.c