Re: [PATCH] arm: make the size of vmalloc in cmdline and meminfo uniform

Russell King (Oracle)
2021-05-18T11:29:57Z

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 07:12:54PM +0800, Yanfei Xu wrote:
> The value of "vmalloc=" set in cmdline is always 8M more than the value
> of "VmallocTotal" in meminfo. When use the "vmalloc=" parameter, user
> expect to get the size what they input, and no need to consider the 8M
> "hole" hided in codes. This commit make real vmalloc size equal to value
> of "vmalloc=" in cmdline.
>
> Also, the commit will reduce the size of vmalloc printed in boot message
> by 8M when the size set in cmdline is irrational.

Hi,

I think I'd like to do several cleanups with this:

1. change vmalloc_min to be an unsigned long.
2. exclude VMALLOC_OFFSET from vmalloc_min, moving it into
adjust_lowmem_bounds where vmalloc_min is used.
3. rename vmalloc_min to be vmalloc_start
4. enforce vmalloc_start to be a multiple of 2MiB
5. in early_vmalloc(), calculate vmalloc_max as:
VMALLOC_END - (PAGE_OFFSET + SZ_32M + VMALLOC_OFFSET)
and use that to set the upper bound of vmalloc_reserve (which is
something your patch doesn't do, which I think is a bug.

Thoughts?

>
> Signed-off-by: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@windriver.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/mm/mmu.c | 9 +++++----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
> index c1e12aab67b8..287c5115af4d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -1133,19 +1133,20 @@ static int __init early_vmalloc(char *arg)
> {
> unsigned long vmalloc_reserve = memparse(arg, NULL);
>
> - if (vmalloc_reserve < SZ_16M) {
> - vmalloc_reserve = SZ_16M;
> + vmalloc_reserve = ALIGN_DOWN(vmalloc_reserve, SZ_8M);
> + if (vmalloc_reserve < SZ_8M) {
> + vmalloc_reserve = SZ_8M;
> pr_warn("vmalloc area too small, limiting to %luMB\n",
> vmalloc_reserve >> 20);
> }
>
> if (vmalloc_reserve > VMALLOC_END - (PAGE_OFFSET + SZ_32M)) {
> - vmalloc_reserve = VMALLOC_END - (PAGE_OFFSET + SZ_32M);
> + vmalloc_reserve = VMALLOC_END - (PAGE_OFFSET + SZ_32M + VMALLOC_OFFSET);
> pr_warn("vmalloc area is too big, limiting to %luMB\n",
> vmalloc_reserve >> 20);
> }
>
> - vmalloc_min = (void *)(VMALLOC_END - vmalloc_reserve);
> + vmalloc_min = (void *)(VMALLOC_END - vmalloc_reserve - VMALLOC_OFFSET);
> return 0;
> }
> early_param("vmalloc", early_vmalloc);
> --
> 2.27.0
>
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