[PATCH v3 0/8] huge vmalloc mappings

Zefan Li lizefan at huawei.com
Wed Aug 12 11:07:44 AEST 2020


On 2020/8/12 0:32, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 12:27:24 +1000
> Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Not tested on x86 or arm64, would appreciate a quick test there so I can
>> ask Andrew to put it in -mm. Other option is I can disable huge vmallocs
>> for them for the time being.
> 
> Hi Nicholas,
> 
> For arm64 testing with a Kunpeng920.
> 
> I ran a quick sanity test with this series on top of mainline (yes mid merge window
> so who knows what state is...).  Could I be missing some dependency?
> 
> Without them it boots, with them it doesn't.  Any immediate guesses?
> 

I've already reported this bug in v2, and yeah I also tested it on arm64
(not Kunpeng though), so looks like it still hasn't been fixed.

...
>>
>> Since v2:
>> - Rebased on vmalloc cleanups, split series into simpler pieces.
>> - Fixed several compile errors and warnings
>> - Keep the page array and accounting in small page units because
>>   struct vm_struct is an interface (this should fix x86 vmap stack debug
>>   assert). [Thanks Zefan]

though the changelog says it's fixed for x86.



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