mm, x86/mm: Untangle address space layout definitions from basic pgtable type definitions

- Untangle the somewhat incestous way of how VMALLOC_START is used all across the
  kernel, but is, on x86, defined deep inside one of the lowest level page table headers.
  It doesn't help that vmalloc.h only includes a single asm header:

     #include <asm/page.h>           /* pgprot_t */

  So there was no existing cross-arch way to decouple address layout
  definitions from page.h details. I used this:

   #ifndef VMALLOC_START
   # include <asm/vmalloc.h>
   #endif

  This way every architecture that wants to simplify page.h can do so.

- Also on x86 we had a couple of LDT related inline functions that used
  the late-stage address space layout positions - but these could be
  uninlined without real trouble - the end result is cleaner this way as
  well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 4d3b3d60d893..19cdbb11fe07 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@
 
 #include "internal.h"
 
+bool is_vmalloc_addr(const void *x)
+{
+	unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)x;
+
+	return addr >= VMALLOC_START && addr < VMALLOC_END;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(is_vmalloc_addr);
+
 struct vfree_deferred {
 	struct llist_head list;
 	struct work_struct wq;