linux-kernel - [RFC 0/4] vmalloc enhancements

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Message-Id: <20181214180720.32040-1-guro@fb.com>
Date:   Fri, 14 Dec 2018 10:07:16 -0800
From:   Roman Gushchin <guroan@...il.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com, Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Subject: [RFC 0/4] vmalloc enhancements

The patchset contains few changes to the vmalloc code, which are
leading to some performance gains and code simplification.

Also, it exports a number of pages, used by vmalloc(),
in /proc/meminfo.

Patch (1) removes some redundancy on __vunmap().
Patch (2) is a preparation for patch (3).
Patch (3) merges independent 3 metadata allocations into one.
Patch (4) adds vmalloc counter to /proc/meminfo.

Roman Gushchin (4):
  mm: refactor __vunmap() to avoid duplicated call to find_vm_area()
  mm: separate memory allocation and actual work in alloc_vmap_area()
  mm: allocate vmalloc metadata in one allocation
  mm: show number of vmalloc pages in /proc/meminfo

 arch/mips/mm/ioremap.c      |   7 +-
 arch/nios2/mm/ioremap.c     |   4 +-
 arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4/sq.c |   5 +-
 arch/sh/mm/ioremap.c        |   8 +-
 arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c       |   4 +-
 fs/proc/meminfo.c           |   2 +-
 include/linux/vmalloc.h     |   6 +-
 mm/vmalloc.c                | 206 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 8 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 102 deletions(-)

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