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| author | Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> | 2021-06-25 04:39:36 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-06-25 05:40:53 +0300 |
| commit | 15a64f5a8870b5610b616a4aa753262dfaa5d76e (patch) | |
| tree | bc3b8e5b0d343720387a9ddbfd19095d1b265cdd /include | |
| parent | 8fd0c1b0647a6bda4067ee0cd61e8395954b6f28 (diff) | |
| download | linux-15a64f5a8870b5610b616a4aa753262dfaa5d76e.tar.xz | |
mm/vmalloc: add vmalloc_no_huge
Patch series "mm: add vmalloc_no_huge and use it", v4.
Add vmalloc_no_huge() and export it, so modules can allocate memory with
small pages.
Use the newly added vmalloc_no_huge() in KVM on s390 to get around a
hardware limitation.
This patch (of 2):
Commit 121e6f3258fe3 ("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings") added
support for hugepage vmalloc mappings, it also added the flag
VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP for __vmalloc_node_range to request the allocation to be
performed with 0-order non-huge pages.
This flag is not accessible when calling vmalloc, the only option is to
call directly __vmalloc_node_range, which is not exported.
This means that a module can't vmalloc memory with small pages.
Case in point: KVM on s390x needs to vmalloc a large area, and it needs
to be mapped with non-huge pages, because of a hardware limitation.
This patch adds the function vmalloc_no_huge, which works like vmalloc,
but it is guaranteed to always back the mapping using small pages. This
new function is exported, therefore it is usable by modules.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: whitespace fixes, per Christoph]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210614132357.10202-1-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210614132357.10202-2-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com
Fixes: 121e6f3258fe3 ("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings")
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/vmalloc.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h index 4d668abb6391..bfaaf0b6fa76 100644 --- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h +++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h @@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ extern void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsigned long size, unsigned long align, const void *caller); void *__vmalloc_node(unsigned long size, unsigned long align, gfp_t gfp_mask, int node, const void *caller); +void *vmalloc_no_huge(unsigned long size); extern void vfree(const void *addr); extern void vfree_atomic(const void *addr); |