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[v3,kernel,3/7] mm: add a function to get the max pfn

Message ID 1470638134-24149-4-git-send-email-liang.z.li@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Liang Li Aug. 8, 2016, 6:35 a.m. UTC 
Expose the function to get the max pfn, so it can be used in the
virtio-balloon device driver. Simply include the 'linux/bootmem.h'
is not enough, if the device driver is built to a module, directly
refer the max_pfn lead to build failed.

Signed-off-by: Liang Li <liang.z.li@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
---
 include/linux/mm.h |  1 +
 mm/page_alloc.c    | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 08ed53e..5873057 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1788,6 +1788,7 @@  extern void free_area_init(unsigned long * zones_size);
 extern void free_area_init_node(int nid, unsigned long * zones_size,
 		unsigned long zone_start_pfn, unsigned long *zholes_size);
 extern void free_initmem(void);
+extern unsigned long get_max_pfn(void);
 
 /*
  * Free reserved pages within range [PAGE_ALIGN(start), end & PAGE_MASK)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index fb975ce..3373704 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4391,6 +4391,16 @@  void show_free_areas(unsigned int filter)
 	show_swap_cache_info();
 }
 
+/*
+ * The max_pfn can change because of memory hot plug, so it's only good
+ * as a hint. e.g. for sizing data structures.
+ */
+unsigned long get_max_pfn(void)
+{
+	return max_pfn;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_max_pfn);
+
 static void zoneref_set_zone(struct zone *zone, struct zoneref *zoneref)
 {
 	zoneref->zone = zone;