linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 bpf RESEND 3/4] module: introduce module_alloc

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Date:   Thu, 14 Apr 2022 13:34:03 -0700
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     Song Liu <song@...nel.org>
Cc:     bpf@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net,
        kernel-team@...com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com, hch@...radead.org,
        imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 bpf RESEND 3/4] module: introduce module_alloc_huge

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 12:59:13PM -0700, Song Liu wrote:
> Introduce module_alloc_huge, which allocates huge page backed memory in
> module memory space. The primary user of this memory is bpf_prog_pack
> (multiple BPF programs sharing a huge page).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@...nel.org>

See modules-next [0], as modules.c has been chopped up as of late.
So if you want this to go throug modules this will need to rebased
on that tree. fortunately the amount of code in question does not
seem like much.

[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux.git/log/?h=modules-next

  Luis