Re: [PATCH bpf-next 3/7] mm: vmalloc: introduce vsize()

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On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 6:23 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 01:41:54AM +0000, Yafang Shao wrote:
> > Introduce a helper to report full size of underlying allocation of a
> > vmalloc'ed address.
>
> What is the use case for it?

The use case is in patch #4 and patch #7, to get the bpf memory usage
from the pointers.
#4: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230202014158.19616-5-laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx/T/#u
#7: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230202014158.19616-8-laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx/T/#u

I forgot to Cc you the full patchset. Sorry about that.
The full patchset is at
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230202014158.19616-1-laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx/

-- 
Regards
Yafang



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