[merged mm-stable] mm-vmalloc-extract-vmap_insert_free_area-helper.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] mm-vmalloc-extract-vmap_insert_free_area-helper.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm/vmalloc: extract vmap_insert_free_area helper
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-vmalloc-extract-vmap_insert_free_area-helper.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: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
Subject: mm/vmalloc: extract vmap_insert_free_area helper
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:43:31 +0800

The allocation and insertion of a free vmap_area is duplicated between the
loop body and the tail of vmap_init_free_space.  Factor it into a small
helper so the main function only deals with computing the free gaps
between busy regions.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260915-vmalloc_study-v2-2-cc4dfe635e22@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
---

 mm/vmalloc.c |   41 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-vmalloc-extract-vmap_insert_free_area-helper
+++ a/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -5419,11 +5419,23 @@ module_init(proc_vmalloc_init);
 
 #endif
 
+static void __init vmap_insert_free_area(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+{
+	struct vmap_area *free = kmem_cache_zalloc(vmap_area_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT);
+
+	if (!WARN_ON_ONCE(!free)) {
+		free->va_start = start;
+		free->va_end = end;
+		insert_vmap_area_augment(free, NULL,
+					 &free_vmap_area_root,
+					 &free_vmap_area_list);
+	}
+}
+
 static void __init vmap_init_free_space(void)
 {
 	unsigned long vmap_start = 1;
 	const unsigned long vmap_end = ULONG_MAX;
-	struct vmap_area *free;
 	struct vm_struct *busy;
 
 	/*
@@ -5433,32 +5445,15 @@ static void __init vmap_init_free_space(
 	 *  |<--------------------------------->|
 	 */
 	for (busy = vmlist; busy; busy = busy->next) {
-		if ((unsigned long) busy->addr - vmap_start > 0) {
-			free = kmem_cache_zalloc(vmap_area_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT);
-			if (!WARN_ON_ONCE(!free)) {
-				free->va_start = vmap_start;
-				free->va_end = (unsigned long) busy->addr;
-
-				insert_vmap_area_augment(free, NULL,
-					&free_vmap_area_root,
-						&free_vmap_area_list);
-			}
-		}
+		if ((unsigned long) busy->addr - vmap_start > 0)
+			vmap_insert_free_area(vmap_start,
+					      (unsigned long) busy->addr);
 
 		vmap_start = (unsigned long) busy->addr + busy->size;
 	}
 
-	if (vmap_end - vmap_start > 0) {
-		free = kmem_cache_zalloc(vmap_area_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT);
-		if (!WARN_ON_ONCE(!free)) {
-			free->va_start = vmap_start;
-			free->va_end = vmap_end;
-
-			insert_vmap_area_augment(free, NULL,
-				&free_vmap_area_root,
-					&free_vmap_area_list);
-		}
-	}
+	if (vmap_end - vmap_start > 0)
+		vmap_insert_free_area(vmap_start, vmap_end);
 }
 
 static void vmap_init_nodes(void)
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from liuye@kylinos.cn are

mm-vmalloc-fix-vmalloc_dump_obj-address-alignment-for-last-page-lookups.patch
mm-vmalloc-fix-vmalloc_dump_obj-cross-zone-va-lookup.patch