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authorClaudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>2021-06-24 18:39:36 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-06-24 19:40:53 -0700
commit15a64f5a8870b5610b616a4aa753262dfaa5d76e (patch)
treebc3b8e5b0d343720387a9ddbfd19095d1b265cdd /mm/vmalloc.c
parent8fd0c1b0647a6bda4067ee0cd61e8395954b6f28 (diff)
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 'mm/vmalloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c17
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index a13ac524f6ff..fada19e17814 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/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
*