[PATCH] mm: introduce kvvirt_to_page() helper

From: Li RongQing
Date: Thu Aug 16 2018 - 05:18:07 EST


The new helper returns address mapping page, which has several users
in individual subsystem, like mem_to_page in xfs_buf.c and pgv_to_page
in af_packet.c, after this, they can be unified

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yu <zhangyu31@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 68a5121694ef..bb34a3c71df5 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -599,6 +599,14 @@ static inline void *kvcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
return kvmalloc_array(n, size, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
}

+static inline struct page *kvvirt_to_page(const void *addr)
+{
+ if (!is_vmalloc_addr(addr))
+ return virt_to_page(addr);
+ else
+ return vmalloc_to_page(addr);
+}
+
extern void kvfree(const void *addr);

static inline atomic_t *compound_mapcount_ptr(struct page *page)
--
2.16.2