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From: Wen Jiang <jiangwenxiaomi@gmail.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, urezki@gmail.com
Cc: baohua@kernel.org, Xueyuan.chen21@gmail.com, dev.jain@arm.com,
	rppt@kernel.org, david@kernel.org, ryan.roberts@arm.com,
	anshuman.khandual@arm.com, ajd@linux.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jiangwen6@xiaomi.com
Subject: [PATCH v3 6/6] mm/vmalloc: align vm_area so vmap() can batch mappings
Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 13:31:46 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260522053146.83209-7-jiangwenxiaomi@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260522053146.83209-1-jiangwenxiaomi@gmail.com>

From: "Barry Song (Xiaomi)" <baohua@kernel.org>

Try to align the vmap virtual address to PMD_SHIFT or a
larger PTE mapping size hinted by the architecture, so
contiguous pages can be batch-mapped when setting PMD or
PTE entries.

Signed-off-by: Barry Song (Xiaomi) <baohua@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Wen Jiang <jiangwen6@xiaomi.com>
Tested-by: Xueyuan Chen <xueyuan.chen21@gmail.com>
---
 mm/vmalloc.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 50642246f4d40..040d400928aab 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -3620,6 +3620,37 @@ static int vmap_batched(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 	return err;
 }
 
+static struct vm_struct *get_aligned_vm_area(unsigned long size,
+		unsigned long flags, const void *caller)
+{
+	struct vm_struct *vm_area;
+	unsigned int shift;
+
+	/* Try PMD alignment for large sizes */
+	if (size >= PMD_SIZE) {
+		vm_area = __get_vm_area_node(size, PMD_SIZE, PAGE_SHIFT, flags,
+				VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END,
+				NUMA_NO_NODE, GFP_KERNEL, caller);
+		if (vm_area)
+			return vm_area;
+	}
+
+	/* Try CONT_PTE alignment */
+	shift = arch_vmap_pte_supported_shift(size);
+	if (shift > PAGE_SHIFT) {
+		vm_area = __get_vm_area_node(size, 1UL << shift, PAGE_SHIFT, flags,
+				VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END,
+				NUMA_NO_NODE, GFP_KERNEL, caller);
+		if (vm_area)
+			return vm_area;
+	}
+
+	/* Fall back to page alignment */
+	return __get_vm_area_node(size, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SHIFT, flags,
+			VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END,
+			NUMA_NO_NODE, GFP_KERNEL, caller);
+}
+
 /**
  * vmap - map an array of pages into virtually contiguous space
  * @pages: array of page pointers
@@ -3658,7 +3689,7 @@ void *vmap(struct page **pages, unsigned int count,
 		return NULL;
 
 	size = (unsigned long)count << PAGE_SHIFT;
-	area = get_vm_area_caller(size, flags, __builtin_return_address(0));
+	area = get_aligned_vm_area(size, flags, __builtin_return_address(0));
 	if (!area)
 		return NULL;
 
-- 
2.34.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-22  5:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-22  5:31 [PATCH v3 0/6] mm/vmalloc: Speed up ioremap, vmalloc and vmap with contiguous memory Wen Jiang
2026-05-22  5:31 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] arm64/hugetlb: Extend batching of multiple CONT_PTE in a single PTE setup Wen Jiang
2026-05-22  5:31 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] arm64/vmalloc: Allow arch_vmap_pte_range_map_size to batch multiple CONT_PTE Wen Jiang
2026-05-22  5:31 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] mm/vmalloc: Extract vmap_set_ptes() to consolidate PTE mapping logic Wen Jiang
2026-05-22  5:31 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] mm/vmalloc: Extend page table walk to support larger page_shift sizes and eliminate page table rewalk Wen Jiang
2026-05-22  5:31 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] mm/vmalloc: map contiguous pages in batches for vmap() if possible Wen Jiang
2026-05-22  5:31 ` Wen Jiang [this message]
2026-05-23  7:53   ` [PATCH v3 6/6] mm/vmalloc: align vm_area so vmap() can batch mappings Uladzislau Rezki
2026-05-22 18:07 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] mm/vmalloc: Speed up ioremap, vmalloc and vmap with contiguous memory Andrew Morton
2026-05-23  8:26   ` Wen Jiang
2026-05-23 21:40     ` Andrew Morton

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