Re: [PATCH] mm/zblock: use vmalloc for page allocations

[Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 03:08:08PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (25/05/07 14:57), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (25/05/06 13:13), Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> > > If we can use vmalloc for zblock, then we can probably also use vmalloc
> > > in zsmalloc and get rid of the chaining logic completely. This would
> > > make zsmalloc simpler and closer to zblock in that regard.
> > > 
> > > Sergey, WDYT?
> > 
> > This sounds interesting.  We might get rid of lots of memcpy()
> > in object read/write paths, and so on.  I don't know if 0-order
> > chaining was the only option for zsmalloc, or just happened to
> > be the first one.
> 
> I assume we might have problems with zspage release path.  vfree()
> should break .swap_slot_free_notify, as far as I can see.
> .swap_slot_free_notify is called under swap-cluster spin-lock,
> so if we free the last object in the zspage we cannot immediately
> free that zspage, because vfree() might_sleep().
> 
you can use vfree_atomic(), it can be collected in any atomic but
no in NMI.

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Uladzislau Rezki