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mm/vmalloc.c: add flags to mark vm_map_ram area
Through vmalloc API, a virtual kernel area is reserved for physical address mapping. And vmap_area is used to track them, while vm_struct is allocated to associate with the vmap_area to store more information and passed out. However, area reserved via vm_map_ram() is an exception. It doesn't have vm_struct to associate with vmap_area. And we can't recognize the vmap_area with '->vm == NULL' as a vm_map_ram() area because the normal freeing path will set va->vm = NULL before unmapping, please see function remove_vm_area(). Meanwhile, there are two types of vm_map_ram area. One is the whole vmap_area being reserved and mapped at one time; the other is the whole vmap_area with VMAP_BLOCK_SIZE size being reserved, while mapped into split regions with smaller size several times via vb_alloc(). To mark the area reserved through vm_map_ram(), add flags field into struct vmap_area. Bit 0 indicates whether it's a vm_map_ram area, while bit 1 indicates whether it's a vmap_block type of vm_map_ram area. This is a preparatoin for later use. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
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