[PATCH] ppc64: topdown support
Recent patches introduced a top down user process address space allocation policy; further patches enable this for ppc64. Although these work correctly for normal maps, the topdown algorithm does not take into account stringent mixing constraints for small and large pages on this architecture. These patches introduce a ppc64 specific arch_get_unused_area_topdown() variant. The first introduces infrastructure to allow replacement of the generic arch_get_unused_area_topdown() and the second utilises this infrastructure. In this patch I have followed the pattern set by the arch_get_unused_area() using HAVE_ARCH_UNMAPPED_AREA_TOPDOWN to be consistent. However, it would also be possible to simply have a ppc64_get_unused_area_topdown() in the arch/ppc64/mm/mmap.c or to use weak bindings. This patch: Allow an architecture to override the default definition of arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(). Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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