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authorRobert Love <rlove@google.com>2008-10-14 10:00:47 -0400
committerIliyan Malchev <malchev@google.com>2011-05-23 15:43:03 -0700
commit33ed32e959629b8feb73a4de3944e25640612c45 (patch)
tree2c30d5712a58063b08c3fde141e72871deeace45 /init
parent6c399b966402b25bf523bb132fb534211d386af5 (diff)
ashmem for 2.6.27.
Forward port of ashmem to 2.6.27. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rlove@google.com> ashmem: Don't install fault handler for private mmaps. Ashmem is used to create named private heaps. If this heap is backed by a tmpfs file it will allocate two pages for every page touched. In 2.6.27, the extra page would later be freed, but 2.6.29 does not scan anonymous pages when running without swap so the memory is not freed while the file is referenced. This change changes the behavior of private ashmem mmaps to match /dev/zero instead tmpfs. Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> ashmem: Add common prefix to name reported in /proc/pid/maps Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> ashmem: don't require a page aligned size This makes ashmem more similar to shmem and mmap, by not requiring the specified size to be page aligned, instead rounding it internally as needed. Signed-off-by: Marco Nelissen <marcone@android.com>
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diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index c79716e84893..2865a07a66a5 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1094,6 +1094,15 @@ config SHMEM
option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
+config ASHMEM
+ bool "Enable the Anonymous Shared Memory Subsystem"
+ default n
+ depends on SHMEM || TINY_SHMEM
+ help
+ The ashmem subsystem is a new shared memory allocator, similar to
+ POSIX SHM but with different behavior and sporting a simpler
+ file-based API.
+
config AIO
bool "Enable AIO support" if EXPERT
default y