Re: [PATCH] alpha: fix vmalloc breakage

[Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 02:01:44AM +0300, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> On alpha, we have to map some stuff in the VMALLOC space very
> early in the boot process (to make SRM console callbacks work
> and so on, see arch/alpha/mm/init.c). For old VM allocator,
> we just manually placed a vm_struct onto the global vmlist
> and this worked for ages.
> Unfortunately, the new allocator isn't aware of this, so it constantly
> tries to allocate the VM space which is already in use, making vmalloc
> on alpha defunct.
> 
> This patch forces KVA to import vmlist entries on init.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
> ---
>  mm/vmalloc.c |   13 +++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index c5db9a7..0dd9c2e 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
>  #include <linux/rbtree.h>
>  #include <linux/radix-tree.h>
>  #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
> +#include <linux/bootmem.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/atomic.h>
>  #include <asm/uaccess.h>
> @@ -984,6 +985,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_map_ram);
>  
>  void __init vmalloc_init(void)
>  {
> +	struct vmap_area *va;
> +	struct vm_struct *tmp;
>  	int i;
>  
>  	for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
> @@ -996,6 +999,16 @@ void __init vmalloc_init(void)
>  		vbq->nr_dirty = 0;
>  	}
>  
> +	/* Import existing vmlist entries. */
> +	for (tmp = vmlist; tmp; tmp = tmp->next) {
> +		va = alloc_bootmem(sizeof(struct vmap_area));
> +		if (!va)
> +			break;

You don't need this check, alloc_bootmem() panics when it fails.

	Hannes