linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] mm: add vmalloc_no

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Date:   Mon, 14 Jun 2021 16:59:11 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 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, 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: Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] mm: add vmalloc_no_huge and use it

On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 15:23:55 +0200 Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks.  I added

Fixes: 121e6f3258fe3 ("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings") 

and also addressed the whitespace thing which Christoph noted.

No cc:stable since 121e6f3258fe3 wasn't in 5.12.