linux/include
Paul Jackson 87e2480258 [PATCH] bitmap: region cleanup
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> says:

This patch set implements a number of patches to clean up and restructure the
bitmap region code, in addition to extending the interface to support
multiword spanning allocations.

The current implementation (before this patch set) is limited by only being
able to allocate pages <= BITS_PER_LONG, as noted by the strategically
positioned BUG_ON() at lib/bitmap.c:752:

        /* We don't do regions of pages > BITS_PER_LONG.  The
	 * algorithm would be a simple look for multiple zeros in the
	 * array, but there's no driver today that needs this.  If you
	 * trip this BUG(), you get to code it... */
        BUG_ON(pages > BITS_PER_LONG);

As I seem to have been the first person to trigger this, the result ends up
being the following patch set with the help of Paul Jackson.

The final patch in the series eliminates quite a bit of code duplication, so
the bitmap code size ends up being smaller than the current implementation as
an added bonus.

After these are applied, it should already be possible to do multiword
allocations with dma_alloc_coherent() out of ranges established by
dma_declare_coherent_memory() on x86 without having to change any of the code,
and the SH store queue API will follow up on this as the other user that needs
support for this.

This patch:

Some code cleanup on the lib/bitmap.c bitmap_*_region() routines:

 * spacing
 * variable names
 * comments

Has no change to code function.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:20 -08:00
..
acpi [PATCH] acpi: export acpi_bus_trim 2006-03-23 14:35:15 -08:00
asm-alpha [PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: remove the helpers 2006-03-24 07:33:19 -08:00
asm-arm [PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: remove the helpers 2006-03-24 07:33:19 -08:00
asm-arm26 [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h 2006-02-15 15:32:22 -08:00
asm-cris [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h 2006-02-15 15:32:22 -08:00
asm-frv [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h 2006-02-15 15:32:22 -08:00
asm-generic [PATCH] more for_each_cpu() conversions 2006-03-23 07:38:17 -08:00
asm-h8300 [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h 2006-02-15 15:32:22 -08:00
asm-i386 [PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: remove the helpers 2006-03-24 07:33:19 -08:00
asm-ia64 [PATCH] atomic: add_unless cmpxchg optimise 2006-03-23 07:38:17 -08:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] m32r: fix and update for gcc-4.0 2006-02-24 14:31:36 -08:00
asm-m68k [PATCH] atomic: add_unless cmpxchg optimise 2006-03-23 07:38:17 -08:00
asm-m68knommu [PATCH] m68knommu: hardirq.h needs definition of NR_IRQS 2006-02-07 16:16:54 -08:00
asm-mips [PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: remove the helpers 2006-03-24 07:33:19 -08:00
asm-parisc [PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: remove the helpers 2006-03-24 07:33:19 -08:00
asm-powerpc [PATCH] more for_each_cpu() conversions 2006-03-23 07:38:17 -08:00
asm-ppc powerpc: Implement accurate task and CPU time accounting 2006-02-24 14:05:56 +11:00
asm-s390 [PATCH] s390: BUG() warnings 2006-03-24 07:33:16 -08:00
asm-sh [PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: remove the helpers 2006-03-24 07:33:19 -08:00
asm-sh64 [PATCH] mm: remove set_pgdir leftovers 2006-03-22 07:53:56 -08:00
asm-sparc [SPARC]: Respect vm_page_prot in io_remap_page_range(). 2006-03-22 01:15:13 -08:00
asm-sparc64 [PATCH] more for_each_cpu() conversions 2006-03-23 07:38:17 -08:00
asm-um [PATCH] x86: SMP alternatives 2006-03-23 07:38:04 -08:00
asm-v850 [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h 2006-02-15 15:32:22 -08:00
asm-x86_64 [PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: remove the helpers 2006-03-24 07:33:19 -08:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h 2006-02-15 15:32:22 -08:00
keys
linux [PATCH] bitmap: region cleanup 2006-03-24 07:33:20 -08:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (3513): Remove saa711x driver 2006-03-21 08:53:40 -08:00
mtd
net Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2006-03-23 17:15:41 -05:00
pcmcia [PATCH] pcmcia: Add macro to match PCMCIA cards by numeric ID and first vendor string 2006-03-01 11:11:26 +01:00
rdma IB/umad: Add support for large RMPP transfers 2006-03-20 10:08:23 -08:00
rxrpc
scsi Merge ../linux-2.6 2006-03-21 13:05:45 -06:00
sound [ALSA] version 1.0.11rc4 2006-03-22 14:37:15 +01:00
video [PATCH] neofb: avoid resetting display config on unblank (v2) 2006-02-15 15:32:21 -08:00