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Commit 15a64f5a authored by Claudio Imbrenda's avatar Claudio Imbrenda Committed by Linus Torvalds
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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 121e6f32 ("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: 121e6f32

 ("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings")
Signed-off-by: default avatarClaudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarUladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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