From 0531b2aac59c2296570ac52bfc032ef2ace7d5e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:20:03 -0800 Subject: mm: add new 'read_cache_page_gfp()' helper function It's a simplified 'read_cache_page()' which takes a page allocation flag, so that different paths can control how aggressive the memory allocations are that populate a address space. In particular, the intel GPU object mapping code wants to be able to do a certain amount of own internal memory management by automatically shrinking the address space when memory starts getting tight. This allows it to dynamically use different memory allocation policies on a per-allocation basis, rather than depend on the (static) address space gfp policy. The actual new function is a one-liner, but re-organizing the helper functions to the point where you can do this with a single line of code is what most of the patch is all about. Tested-by: Chris Wilson Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/pagemap.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h index ed5d7501e181..3c62ed408492 100644 --- a/include/linux/pagemap.h +++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h @@ -253,6 +253,8 @@ extern struct page * read_cache_page_async(struct address_space *mapping, extern struct page * read_cache_page(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index, filler_t *filler, void *data); +extern struct page * read_cache_page_gfp(struct address_space *mapping, + pgoff_t index, gfp_t gfp_mask); extern int read_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping, struct list_head *pages, filler_t *filler, void *data); -- cgit v1.2.2