From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com,mhocko@suse.com,mhocko@kernel.org,glider@google.com,elver@google.com,bhe@redhat.com,urezki@gmail.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-stable] mm-kvmalloc-add-non-blocking-support-for-vmalloc.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:31:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251117013130.84AB3C4CEF5@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: kvmalloc: add non-blocking support for vmalloc
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-kvmalloc-add-non-blocking-support-for-vmalloc.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------
From: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Subject: mm: kvmalloc: add non-blocking support for vmalloc
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 14:20:35 +0200
Extend __kvmalloc_node_noprof() to handle non-blocking GFP flags
(GFP_NOWAIT and GFP_ATOMIC). Previously such flags were rejected,
returning NULL. With this change:
- kvmalloc() can fall back to vmalloc() if non-blocking contexts;
- for non-blocking allocations the VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP option is
disabled, since the huge mapping path still contains might_sleep();
- documentation update to reflect that GFP_NOWAIT and GFP_ATOMIC
are now supported.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251007122035.56347-11-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/slub.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/slub.c~mm-kvmalloc-add-non-blocking-support-for-vmalloc
+++ a/mm/slub.c
@@ -7090,7 +7090,7 @@ static gfp_t kmalloc_gfp_adjust(gfp_t fl
* Uses kmalloc to get the memory but if the allocation fails then falls back
* to the vmalloc allocator. Use kvfree for freeing the memory.
*
- * GFP_NOWAIT and GFP_ATOMIC are not supported, neither is the __GFP_NORETRY modifier.
+ * GFP_NOWAIT and GFP_ATOMIC are supported, the __GFP_NORETRY modifier is not.
* __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL is supported, and it should be used only if kmalloc is
* preferable to the vmalloc fallback, due to visible performance drawbacks.
*
@@ -7099,6 +7099,7 @@ static gfp_t kmalloc_gfp_adjust(gfp_t fl
void *__kvmalloc_node_noprof(DECL_BUCKET_PARAMS(size, b), unsigned long align,
gfp_t flags, int node)
{
+ bool allow_block;
void *ret;
/*
@@ -7111,10 +7112,6 @@ void *__kvmalloc_node_noprof(DECL_BUCKET
if (ret || size <= PAGE_SIZE)
return ret;
- /* non-sleeping allocations are not supported by vmalloc */
- if (!gfpflags_allow_blocking(flags))
- return NULL;
-
/* Don't even allow crazy sizes */
if (unlikely(size > INT_MAX)) {
WARN_ON_ONCE(!(flags & __GFP_NOWARN));
@@ -7122,13 +7119,23 @@ void *__kvmalloc_node_noprof(DECL_BUCKET
}
/*
+ * For non-blocking the VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP is not used
+ * because the huge-mapping path in vmalloc contains at
+ * least one might_sleep() call.
+ *
+ * TODO: Revise huge-mapping path to support non-blocking
+ * flags.
+ */
+ allow_block = gfpflags_allow_blocking(flags);
+
+ /*
* kvmalloc() can always use VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP,
* since the callers already cannot assume anything
* about the resulting pointer, and cannot play
* protection games.
*/
return __vmalloc_node_range_noprof(size, align, VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END,
- flags, PAGE_KERNEL, VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP,
+ flags, PAGE_KERNEL, allow_block ? VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP:0,
node, __builtin_return_address(0));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kvmalloc_node_noprof);
_
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