linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 1/2] mm/vmalloc: add vmalloc_no

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Message-Id: <20210610154220.529122-2-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:42:19 +0200
From:   Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        frankja@...ux.ibm.com, borntraeger@...ibm.com, cohuck@...hat.com,
        david@...hat.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/2] mm/vmalloc: add vmalloc_no_huge

The recent patches to add support for hugepage vmalloc mappings added a
flag for __vmalloc_node_range to allow to request small 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 small 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
function is exported, therefore it is usable by modules.

Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@...il.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
---
 include/linux/vmalloc.h |  1 +
 mm/vmalloc.c            | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index 4d668abb6391..bfaaf0b6fa76 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ extern void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
 			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);
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index a13ac524f6ff..296a2fcc3fbe 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2998,6 +2998,22 @@ 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
-- 
2.31.1