[PATCH v13 14/14] powerpc/64s/radix: Enable huge vmalloc mappings

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Fri Apr 16 04:55:29 AEST 2021


On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 12:23:55 +0200 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu> wrote:
> > +	 * is done. STRICT_MODULE_RWX may require extra work to support this
> > +	 * too.
> > +	 */
> >   
> > -	return __vmalloc_node_range(size, 1, MODULES_VADDR, MODULES_END, GFP_KERNEL,
> > -				    PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS, NUMA_NO_NODE,
> 
> 
> I think you should add the following in <asm/pgtable.h>
> 
> #ifndef MODULES_VADDR
> #define MODULES_VADDR VMALLOC_START
> #define MODULES_END VMALLOC_END
> #endif
> 
> And leave module_alloc() as is (just removing the enclosing #ifdef MODULES_VADDR and adding the 
> VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP  flag)
> 
> This would minimise the conflits with the changes I did in powerpc/next reported by Stephen R.
> 

I'll drop powerpc-64s-radix-enable-huge-vmalloc-mappings.patch for now,
make life simpler.

Nick, a redo on top of Christophe's changes in linux-next would be best
please.



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