linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] kho: add support for preserving vmalloc allocations

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Message-Id: <20250924140010.81305926b42d0223dcf3b818@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:00:10 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@...nel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
 Alexander Graf <graf@...zon.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>, Changyuan
 Lyu <changyuanl@...gle.com>, Chris Li <chrisl@...nel.org>, Pasha Tatashin
 <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] kho: add support for preserving vmalloc
 allocations

On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 17:28:07 +0200 Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@...nel.org> wrote:

> >
> > Not sure why this code works - I'll suspend the series from linux-next
> > for now.
> 
> It only gets called in the error path and that didn't get hit during
> testing I suppose. Until v3 the chunk was being allocated using
> kzalloc() so I guess this got missed in the move to get_zeroed_page().
> 
> I think Mike is out of office this week. Do you think this series is
> stable enough to land in the upcoming merge window? If so, I can send a
> v6 with the fix today.

A one-liner fiup would be preferred, if no other changes are required,
thanks.