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The current mm interface is asymetric. One function allocates a locked buffer, another function only refunds the memory. Change this to have two functions for accounting and refunding locked memory, respectively; and do the actual buffer allocation in ptrace. [ Impact: refactor BTS buffer allocation code ] Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090424095143.A30265@sedona.ch.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>