From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,zkabelac@redhat.com,urezki@gmail.com,stable@vger.kernel.org,sj@kernel.org,mhocko@suse.com,hch@lst.de,anshuman.khandual@arm.com,mpatocka@redhat.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [alternative-merged] mm-allow-__gfp_retry_mayfail-in-vmalloc.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:15:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260311181551.25C3AC4CEF7@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: allow __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL in vmalloc
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-allow-__gfp_retry_mayfail-in-vmalloc.patch
This patch was dropped because an alternative patch was or shall be merged
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From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Subject: mm: allow __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL in vmalloc
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:33:30 +0100 (CET)
The commit 07003531e03c8 ("mm/vmalloc: warn on invalid vmalloc gfp flags")
breaks the device mapper VDO target. The VDO target calls vmalloc with
__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL and this flag is not in the mask of allowed flags.
There is no reason why vmalloc couldn't support __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL, so
let's add this flag to GFP_VMALLOC_SUPPORTED.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ff48283b-be21-7f9a-d616-e303a4a1ebe6@redhat.com
Fixes: 07003531e03c ("mm/vmalloc: warn on invalid vmalloc gfp flags")
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.19]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-allow-__gfp_retry_mayfail-in-vmalloc
+++ a/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -3941,6 +3941,7 @@ fail:
*/
#define GFP_VMALLOC_SUPPORTED (GFP_KERNEL | GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_NOWAIT |\
__GFP_NOFAIL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_NORETRY |\
+ __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL |\
GFP_NOFS | GFP_NOIO | GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT |\
GFP_USER | __GFP_NOLOCKDEP)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mpatocka@redhat.com are
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