From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,urezki@gmail.com,sj@kernel.org,hch@infradead.org,vishal.moola@gmail.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-stable] mm-vmalloc-add-a-helper-to-optimize-vmalloc-allocation-gfps.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:10:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251124231059.D169DC4CEF1@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/vmalloc: add a helper to optimize vmalloc allocation gfps
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-vmalloc-add-a-helper-to-optimize-vmalloc-allocation-gfps.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: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Subject: mm/vmalloc: add a helper to optimize vmalloc allocation gfps
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 01:44:03 -0800
vm_area_alloc_pages() attempts to use different gfp flags as a way to
optimize allocations. This has been done inline which makes things harder
to read.
Add a helper function to make the code more readable.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251121094405.40628-3-vishal.moola@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-vmalloc-add-a-helper-to-optimize-vmalloc-allocation-gfps
+++ a/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -3614,6 +3614,17 @@ void *vmap_pfn(unsigned long *pfns, unsi
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vmap_pfn);
#endif /* CONFIG_VMAP_PFN */
+/*
+ * Helper for vmalloc to adjust the gfp flags for certain allocations.
+ */
+static inline gfp_t vmalloc_gfp_adjust(gfp_t flags, const bool large)
+{
+ flags |= __GFP_NOWARN;
+ if (large)
+ flags &= ~__GFP_NOFAIL;
+ return flags;
+}
+
static inline unsigned int
vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
unsigned int order, unsigned int nr_pages, struct page **pages)
@@ -3852,9 +3863,9 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct
* Please note, the __vmalloc_node_range_noprof() falls-back
* to order-0 pages if high-order attempt is unsuccessful.
*/
- area->nr_pages = vm_area_alloc_pages((page_order ?
- gfp_mask & ~__GFP_NOFAIL : gfp_mask) | __GFP_NOWARN,
- node, page_order, nr_small_pages, area->pages);
+ area->nr_pages = vm_area_alloc_pages(
+ vmalloc_gfp_adjust(gfp_mask, page_order), node,
+ page_order, nr_small_pages, area->pages);
atomic_long_add(area->nr_pages, &nr_vmalloc_pages);
/* All pages of vm should be charged to same memcg, so use first one. */
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from vishal.moola@gmail.com are
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