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Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 14:07:28 -0700
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, zijun_hu <zijun_hu@....com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
angus@...usclark.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] arm64: Silence first allocation with
CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS=y
On 05/03/2017 04:18 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 11:19:02AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> When CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS is enabled, the first allocation using the
>> module space fails, because the module is too big, and then the module
>> allocation is attempted from vmalloc space. Silence the first allocation
>> failure in that case by setting __GFP_NOWARN.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
>> ---
>> arch/arm64/kernel/module.c | 7 ++++++-
>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> I'm not sure what the merge plan is for these, but the arm64 bit here
> looks fine to me:
>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Thanks, not sure either, would you or Catalin want to pick this series?
>
> Will
>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/module.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/module.c
>> index 7f316982ce00..093c13541efb 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/module.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/module.c
>> @@ -32,11 +32,16 @@
>>
>> void *module_alloc(unsigned long size)
>> {
>> + gfp_t gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL;
>> void *p;
>>
>> + /* Silence the initial allocation */
>> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS))
>> + gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOWARN;
>> +
>> p = __vmalloc_node_range(size, MODULE_ALIGN, module_alloc_base,
>> module_alloc_base + MODULES_VSIZE,
>> - GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, 0,
>> + gfp_mask, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, 0,
>> NUMA_NO_NODE, __builtin_return_address(0));
>>
>> if (!p && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS) &&
>> --
>> 2.9.3
>>
--
Florian
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