[PATCH v3 3/3] arm64: Silence first allocation with CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS=y

Catalin Marinas
2017-05-10T08:38:03Z

On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 11:07:24AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 02:07:28PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > On 05/03/2017 04:18 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 11:19:02AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > >> When CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS is enabled, the first allocation using the
> > >> module space fails, because the module is too big, and then the module
> > >> allocation is attempted from vmalloc space. Silence the first allocation
> > >> failure in that case by setting __GFP_NOWARN.
> > >>
> > >> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> > >> ---
> > >> arch/arm64/kernel/module.c | 7 ++++++-
> > >> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what the merge plan is for these, but the arm64 bit here
> > > looks fine to me:
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> >
> > Thanks, not sure either, would you or Catalin want to pick this series?
>
> We'd need an Ack from Russell on the arch/arm/ part before we could take
> this series.

The first patch touches mm/vmalloc.c, so we could also merge the series
via akpm's tree. Andrew, do you have any preference?

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Catalin