From: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
To: urezki@gmail.com
Cc: 21cnbao@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@kernel.org,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, jstultz@google.com,
linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
mripard@kernel.org, sumit.semwal@linaro.org,
xueyuan.chen21@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: map contiguous pages in batches for vmap() whenever possible
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2026 17:20:28 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260403092028.61257-1-baohua@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aVvmxGUp2l0Tavwb@milan>
> I think so, at least the place:
>
> <snip>
> [ 2.959030] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#66] SMP NOPTI
> [ 2.960004] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.18.0+ #220 PREEMPT(none)
> [ 2.961781] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
> [ 2.963870] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffff3fd68118
> [ 2.965383] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> [ 2.966532] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> [ 2.967682] BAD
> <snip>
>
> but it is broken for sure:
> i += 1U << shift - "i" is an index in the page array.
> For example if order-0 you jump 4096 indices ahead.
> Should be: i += 1U << (shift - PAGE_SHIFT)
You’re right! And sorry for the slow response—it’s been
three months since the last discussion.
> vmap_page_range() does flushing and it has instrumented KMSAN inside.
> We should follow same semantic. Also it uses ioremap_max_page_shift as
> maximum page shift policy.
Not quite sure if vmap() should follow ioremap()’s
ioremap_max_page_shift. If needed, it shouldn’t be
difficult to do so.
I have a version queued for testing (Xueyuan is working
hard on it). Meanwhile, if you have any comments, please
feel free to share.
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 57eae99d9909..8d449e78a07a 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -3513,6 +3513,60 @@ void vunmap(const void *addr)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vunmap);
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
+static inline int get_vmap_batch_order(struct page **pages,
+ unsigned int max_steps, unsigned int idx)
+{
+ unsigned int nr_pages;
+
+ if (ioremap_max_page_shift == PAGE_SHIFT)
+ return 0;
+
+ nr_pages = compound_nr(pages[idx]);
+ if (nr_pages == 1 || max_steps < nr_pages)
+ return 0;
+
+ if (num_pages_contiguous(&pages[idx], nr_pages) == nr_pages)
+ return compound_order(pages[idx]);
+ return 0;
+}
+#else
+static inline int get_vmap_batch_order(struct page **pages,
+ unsigned int max_steps, unsigned int idx)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
+static int vmap_contig_pages_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
+ pgprot_t prot, struct page **pages)
+{
+ unsigned int count = (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ int err;
+
+ err = kmsan_vmap_pages_range_noflush(addr, end, prot, pages,
+ PAGE_SHIFT, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (err)
+ goto out;
+
+ for (unsigned int i = 0; i < count; ) {
+ unsigned int shift = PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+ shift += get_vmap_batch_order(pages, count - i, i);
+ err = vmap_range_noflush(addr, addr + (1UL << shift),
+ page_to_phys(pages[i]), prot, shift);
+ if (err)
+ goto out;
+
+ addr += 1UL << shift;
+ i += 1U << (shift - PAGE_SHIFT);
+ }
+
+out:
+ flush_cache_vmap(addr, end);
+ return err;
+}
+
/**
* vmap - map an array of pages into virtually contiguous space
* @pages: array of page pointers
@@ -3556,8 +3610,8 @@ void *vmap(struct page **pages, unsigned int count,
return NULL;
addr = (unsigned long)area->addr;
- if (vmap_pages_range(addr, addr + size, pgprot_nx(prot),
- pages, PAGE_SHIFT) < 0) {
+ if (vmap_contig_pages_range(addr, addr + size, pgprot_nx(prot),
+ pages) < 0) {
vunmap(area->addr);
return NULL;
}
--
2.39.3 (Apple Git-146)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-03 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-15 5:30 [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: map contiguous pages in batches for vmap() whenever possible Barry Song
2025-12-18 13:01 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-18 13:54 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2025-12-18 21:24 ` Barry Song
2025-12-22 13:08 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2025-12-23 21:23 ` Barry Song
2026-01-05 16:28 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2026-04-03 9:20 ` Barry Song [this message]
2025-12-18 14:00 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2025-12-18 20:05 ` Barry Song
2026-01-14 12:59 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
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