[Patch 5/5] module: merge module_alloc() finally

From: Amerigo Wang
Date: Wed Jun 03 2009 - 21:48:33 EST



As Christoph Hellwig suggested, module_alloc() actually can be
unified for i386 and x86_64 (of course, also UML).

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: 'Ingo Molnar' <mingo@xxxxxxx>

---
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_32_types.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_32_types.h
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_32_types.h
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ extern bool __vmalloc_start_set; /* set
# define VMALLOC_END (FIXADDR_START - 2 * PAGE_SIZE)
#endif

+#define MODULES_VADDR VMALLOC_START
+#define MODULES_END VMALLOC_END
+#define MODULES_LEN (MODULES_VADDR - MODULES_END)
+
#define MAXMEM (VMALLOC_END - PAGE_OFFSET - __VMALLOC_RESERVE)

#endif /* _ASM_X86_PGTABLE_32_DEFS_H */
Index: linux-2.6/arch/um/include/asm/pgtable.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/um/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ linux-2.6/arch/um/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -53,16 +53,21 @@ extern unsigned long end_iomem;
#else
# define VMALLOC_END (FIXADDR_START-2*PAGE_SIZE)
#endif
+#define MODULES_VADDR VMALLOC_START
+#define MODULES_END VMALLOC_END
+#define MODULES_LEN (MODULES_VADDR - MODULES_END)

#define _PAGE_TABLE (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_USER | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY)
#define _KERNPG_TABLE (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY)
#define _PAGE_CHG_MASK (PAGE_MASK | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY)
-
+#define __PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC \
+ (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_ACCESSED)
#define PAGE_NONE __pgprot(_PAGE_PROTNONE | _PAGE_ACCESSED)
#define PAGE_SHARED __pgprot(_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_USER | _PAGE_ACCESSED)
#define PAGE_COPY __pgprot(_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_USER | _PAGE_ACCESSED)
#define PAGE_READONLY __pgprot(_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_USER | _PAGE_ACCESSED)
#define PAGE_KERNEL __pgprot(_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_ACCESSED)
+#define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC __pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC)

/*
* The i386 can't do page protection for execute, and considers that the same
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
@@ -35,14 +35,6 @@
#define DEBUGP(fmt...)
#endif

-#if defined(CONFIG_UML) || defined(CONFIG_X86_32)
-void *module_alloc(unsigned long size)
-{
- if (size == 0)
- return NULL;
- return vmalloc_exec(size);
-}
-#else /*X86_64*/
void *module_alloc(unsigned long size)
{
struct vm_struct *area;
@@ -57,9 +49,9 @@ void *module_alloc(unsigned long size)
if (!area)
return NULL;

- return __vmalloc_area(area, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC);
+ return __vmalloc_area(area, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM,
+ PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC);
}
-#endif

static void trim_init_extable(struct module *m)
{
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