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[Resend] arm64: support huge vmalloc mappings

Message ID 20220911044423.139229-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [Resend] arm64: support huge vmalloc mappings | expand

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Kefeng Wang Sept. 11, 2022, 4:44 a.m. UTC
As commit 559089e0a93d ("vmalloc: replace VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP with
VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP"), the use of hugepage mappings for vmalloc
is an opt-in strategy, so it is saftly to support huge vmalloc
mappings on arm64, for now, it is used in kvmalloc() and
alloc_large_system_hash().

Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
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Resend: correct commit id

 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +-
 arch/arm64/Kconfig                              | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Catalin Marinas Sept. 16, 2022, 5:46 p.m. UTC | #1
On Sun, 11 Sep 2022 12:44:23 +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> As commit 559089e0a93d ("vmalloc: replace VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP with
> VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP"), the use of hugepage mappings for vmalloc
> is an opt-in strategy, so it is saftly to support huge vmalloc
> mappings on arm64, for now, it is used in kvmalloc() and
> alloc_large_system_hash().
> 
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!

[1/1] arm64: support huge vmalloc mappings
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/e92072237e6c
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 01c996f0cdaf..2f58c764b094 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3617,7 +3617,7 @@ 
 
 	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
 
-	nohugevmalloc	[PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
+	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
 
 	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
 			Equivalent to smt=1.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index a62a8a23c6e5..679d9a9c98d8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@  config ARM64
 	select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
 	select HAVE_ARCH_BITREVERSE
 	select HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
+	select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC
 	select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
 	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
 	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE