Merge branch 'mfd/wm8994' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/misc into for-3.3

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index b669aa6f6caf..3231bf332878 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2141,23 +2141,30 @@ void  __attribute__((weak)) vmalloc_sync_all(void)
 
 static int f(pte_t *pte, pgtable_t table, unsigned long addr, void *data)
 {
-        /* apply_to_page_range() does all the hard work. */
+        pte_t ***p = data;
+
+        if (p) {
+                *(*p) = pte;
+                (*p)++;
+        }
         return 0;
 }
 
 /**
  *      alloc_vm_area - allocate a range of kernel address space
  *      @size:          size of the area
+ *      @ptes:          returns the PTEs for the address space
  *
  *      Returns:        NULL on failure, vm_struct on success
  *
  *      This function reserves a range of kernel address space, and
  *      allocates pagetables to map that range.  No actual mappings
- *      are created.  If the kernel address space is not shared
- *      between processes, it syncs the pagetable across all
- *      processes.
+ *      are created.
+ *
+ *      If @ptes is non-NULL, pointers to the PTEs (in init_mm)
+ *      allocated for the VM area are returned.
  */
-struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(size_t size)
+struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(size_t size, pte_t **ptes)
 {
         struct vm_struct *area;
 
@@ -2171,19 +2178,11 @@ struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(size_t size)
          * of kernel virtual address space and mapped into init_mm.
          */
         if (apply_to_page_range(&init_mm, (unsigned long)area->addr,
-                                area->size, f, NULL)) {
+                                size, f, ptes ? &ptes : NULL)) {
                 free_vm_area(area);
                 return NULL;
         }
 
-        /*
-         * If the allocated address space is passed to a hypercall
-         * before being used then we cannot rely on a page fault to
-         * trigger an update of the page tables.  So sync all the page
-         * tables here.
-         */
-        vmalloc_sync_all();
-
         return area;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alloc_vm_area);