@@ -249,4 +249,21 @@ pcpu_free_vm_areas(struct vm_struct **vms, int nr_vms)
int register_vmap_purge_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
int unregister_vmap_purge_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
+/*
+ * These functions can be optionally implemented by an arch in order to
+ * provide specialized functions for allocating trampoline code.
+ */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_TEXT_ALLOC
+/*
+ * Allocate memory to be used for trampoline code.
+ */
+void *text_alloc(unsigned long size);
+
+/*
+ * Free memory returned from text_alloc().
+ */
+void text_free(void *region);
+#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_TEXT_ALLOC */
+
#endif /* _LINUX_VMALLOC_H */
Introduce functions for allocating memory for dynamic trampolines, such as kprobes. An arch can promote the availability of these functions with CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_TEXT_ALLOC. Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> --- include/linux/vmalloc.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)