kernel-ark/lib
Dean Nelson 929f97276b [PATCH] change gen_pool allocator to not touch managed memory
Modify the gen_pool allocator (lib/genalloc.c) to utilize a bitmap scheme
instead of the buddy scheme.  The purpose of this change is to eliminate
the touching of the actual memory being allocated.

Since the change modifies the interface, a change to the uncached allocator
(arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c) is also required.

Both Andrey Volkov and Jes Sorenson have expressed a desire that the
gen_pool allocator not write to the memory being managed. See the
following:

  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113518602713125&w=2
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113533568827916&w=2

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrey Volkov <avolkov@varma-el.com>
Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:42:49 -07:00
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reed_solomon
zlib_deflate [PATCH] zlib_inflate: Upgrade library code to a recent version 2006-06-22 15:05:58 -07:00
zlib_inflate [PATCH] zlib_inflate: Upgrade library code to a recent version 2006-06-22 15:05:58 -07:00
.gitignore
bitmap.c [PATCH] bitops: hweight() related cleanup 2006-03-26 08:57:15 -08:00
bust_spinlocks.c
cmdline.c
cpumask.c
crc16.c
crc32.c
crc32defs.h
crc-ccitt.c
ctype.c
dec_and_lock.c
div64.c
dump_stack.c
errno.c
extable.c
find_next_bit.c [PATCH] bitops: generic ext2_{set,clear,test,find_first_zero,find_next_zero}_bit() 2006-03-26 08:57:11 -08:00
gen_crc32table.c
genalloc.c [PATCH] change gen_pool allocator to not touch managed memory 2006-06-23 07:42:49 -07:00
halfmd4.c
hweight.c [PATCH] bitops: hweight() speedup 2006-03-26 08:59:30 -08:00
idr.c
inflate.c
int_sqrt.c
iomap_copy.c [PATCH] add __iowrite64_copy 2006-06-20 20:24:58 -07:00
iomap.c
Kconfig
Kconfig.debug [SPARC]: Handle UNWIND_INFO properly. 2006-05-12 12:45:50 -07:00
kernel_lock.c
klist.c
kobject_uevent.c [PATCH] Kobject: fix build error 2006-04-27 13:08:56 -07:00
kobject.c [PATCH] kobject: make people pay attention to kobject_add errors 2006-06-21 12:40:47 -07:00
kref.c
libcrc32c.c
Makefile [PATCH] bitops: generic hweight{64,32,16,8}() 2006-03-26 08:57:11 -08:00
parser.c
prio_tree.c
radix-tree.c
rbtree.c [RBTREE] Switch rb_colour() et al to en_US spelling of 'color' for consistency 2006-06-05 20:19:05 +01:00
rwsem-spinlock.c
rwsem.c
semaphore-sleepers.c
sha1.c
smp_processor_id.c
sort.c
spinlock_debug.c
string.c [PATCH] Silence a const vs non-const warning 2006-04-11 06:18:42 -07:00
swiotlb.c
textsearch.c
ts_bm.c
ts_fsm.c
ts_kmp.c
vsprintf.c