[merged mm-stable] mm-damon-core-use-kvmalloc-for-target-regions-array.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] mm-damon-core-use-kvmalloc-for-target-regions-array.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm/damon/core: use kvmalloc for target regions array
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-damon-core-use-kvmalloc-for-target-regions-array.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

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From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Subject: mm/damon/core: use kvmalloc for target regions array
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:55:32 -0700

Patch series "mm/damon: five misc fixups"

Five patches for miscellaneous DAMON fixups.  Use better fit kernel
functions, cleanup/fixup documents, and add unit tests.

The five patches were initially sent and revisioned by different
individuals.  Each patch contains changelog on their commentary area.  The
patches are curated into this series by SJ, for the convenience in
reposting.


This patch (of 5):

damon_commit_target_regions() temporarily allocates a single contiguous
memory region using kmalloc to store copies of all damon_regions of the
damon_target.  However, if the damon_target has a large number of
damon_regions, the total size may exceed KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE.

This problem can be avoided by using kvmalloc instead of kmalloc.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260629145538.134832-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260629145538.134832-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Asier Gutierrez <gutierrez.asier@huawei-partners.com>
Cc: Doehyun Baek <doehyunbaek@gmail.com>
Cc: Philippe Laferriere <plafer@proton.me>
Cc: Sailesh Nandanavanam <saileshnandanavanam@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/damon/core.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/damon/core.c~mm-damon-core-use-kvmalloc-for-target-regions-array
+++ a/mm/damon/core.c
@@ -1369,14 +1369,14 @@ static int damon_commit_target_regions(s
 	if (!i)
 		return 0;
 
-	ranges = kmalloc_objs(*ranges, i, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
+	ranges = kvmalloc_objs(*ranges, i, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
 	if (!ranges)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	i = 0;
 	damon_for_each_region(src_region, src)
 		ranges[i++] = src_region->ar;
 	err = damon_set_regions(dst, ranges, i, src_min_region_sz);
-	kfree(ranges);
+	kvfree(ranges);
 	return err;
 }
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from akinobu.mita@gmail.com are