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[12/24] mm/vmalloc: add vmalloc_no_huge

Message ID 20210625013936.vemOJ1E0d%akpm@linux-foundation.org (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series [01/24] mm: page_vma_mapped_walk(): use page for pvmw->page | expand

Commit Message

Andrew Morton June 25, 2021, 1:39 a.m. UTC 
From: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: 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>
---

 include/linux/vmalloc.h |    1 +
 mm/vmalloc.c            |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
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--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h~mm-vmalloc-add-vmalloc_no_huge
+++ a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@  extern void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsign
 			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);
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-vmalloc-add-vmalloc_no_huge
+++ a/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2999,6 +2999,23 @@  void *vmalloc(unsigned long size)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc);
 
 /**
+ * vmalloc_no_huge - allocate virtually contiguous memory using small pages
+ * @size:    allocation size
+ *
+ * Allocate enough non-huge pages to cover @size from the page level
+ * allocator and map them into contiguous kernel virtual space.
+ *
+ * Return: pointer to the allocated memory or %NULL on error
+ */
+void *vmalloc_no_huge(unsigned long size)
+{
+	return __vmalloc_node_range(size, 1, VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END,
+				    GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL, VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP,
+				    NUMA_NO_NODE, __builtin_return_address(0));
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_no_huge);
+
+/**
  * vzalloc - allocate virtually contiguous memory with zero fill
  * @size:    allocation size
  *