linux/arch
Dean Nelson 929f97276b [PATCH] change gen_pool allocator to not touch managed memory
Modify the gen_pool allocator (lib/genalloc.c) to utilize a bitmap scheme
instead of the buddy scheme.  The purpose of this change is to eliminate
the touching of the actual memory being allocated.

Since the change modifies the interface, a change to the uncached allocator
(arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c) is also required.

Both Andrey Volkov and Jes Sorenson have expressed a desire that the
gen_pool allocator not write to the memory being managed. See the
following:

  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113518602713125&w=2
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113533568827916&w=2

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrey Volkov <avolkov@varma-el.com>
Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:42:49 -07:00
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alpha [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry 2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
arm [ARM] 3537/1: Rework DMA-bounce locking for finer granularity 2006-06-22 22:27:14 +01:00
arm26 [PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementations 2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
cris [PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementations 2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
frv [PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementations 2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
h8300 [PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementations 2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
i386 [PATCH] Unify pxm_to_node() and node_to_pxm() 2006-06-23 07:42:48 -07:00
ia64 [PATCH] change gen_pool allocator to not touch managed memory 2006-06-23 07:42:49 -07:00
m32r [PATCH] m32r: update switch_to macro for tuning 2006-04-19 09:13:51 -07:00
m68k [PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementations 2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
m68knommu [PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementations 2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
mips [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry 2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
parisc [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry 2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
powerpc [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount 2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
ppc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc 2006-06-22 22:11:30 -07:00
s390 [PATCH] s390: fix typo in stop_hz_timer. 2006-05-25 12:09:55 -07:00
sh [PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementations 2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
sh64 [PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementations 2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
sparc [PATCH] sparc build breakage 2006-06-22 15:05:55 -07:00
sparc64 [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry 2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
um Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc 2006-06-22 22:11:30 -07:00
v850 [PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementations 2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
x86_64 [PATCH] Unify pxm_to_node() and node_to_pxm() 2006-06-23 07:42:48 -07:00
xtensa [PATCH] zlib_inflate: Upgrade library code to a recent version 2006-06-22 15:05:58 -07:00