[PATCH] sparsemem base: simple NUMA remap space allocator

Introduce a simple allocator for the NUMA remap space.  This space is very
scarce, used for structures which are best allocated node local.

This mechanism is also used on non-NUMA ia64 systems with a vmem_map to keep
the pgdat->node_mem_map initialized in a consistent place for all
architectures.

Issues:
o alloc_remap takes a node_id where we might expect a pgdat which was intended
  to allow us to allocate the pgdat's using this mechanism; which we do not yet
  do.  Could have alloc_remap_node() and alloc_remap_nid() for this purpose.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/bootmem.h b/include/linux/bootmem.h
index 0dd8ca1a3d5a..500f451ce0c0 100644
--- a/include/linux/bootmem.h
+++ b/include/linux/bootmem.h
@@ -67,6 +67,15 @@ extern void * __init __alloc_bootmem_node (pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long size,
         __alloc_bootmem_node((pgdat), (x), PAGE_SIZE, 0)
 #endif /* !CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP
+extern void *alloc_remap(int nid, unsigned long size);
+#else
+static inline void *alloc_remap(int nid, unsigned long size)
+{
+        return NULL;
+}
+#endif
+
 extern unsigned long __initdata nr_kernel_pages;
 extern unsigned long __initdata nr_all_pages;