staging: ion: Add private buffer flag to skip page pooling on free
Currently, when we free a buffer it might actually just go back into a heap-specific page pool rather than going back to the system. This poses a problem because sometimes (like when we're running a shrinker in low memory conditions) we need to force the memory associated with the buffer to truly be relinquished to the system rather than just going back into a page pool. There isn't a use case for this flag by Ion clients, so make it a private flag. The main use case right now is to provide a mechanism for the deferred free code to force stale buffers to bypass page pooling. Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com> Signed-off-by: Mitchel Humpherys <mitchelh@codeaurora.org> [jstultz: Minor commit subject tweak] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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