On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 14:09:09 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:42:19 +0200 Claudio Imbrenda
> <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The recent patches to add support for hugepage vmalloc mappings
I will put the proper commit ID here
> > added a flag for __vmalloc_node_range to allow to request small
and the name of the flag here
> > pages. This flag is not accessible when calling vmalloc, the only
and improve the wording in general ("order-0 pages" instead of "small
pages")
> > option is to call directly __vmalloc_node_range, which is not
> > exported.
>
> I can find no patch which adds such a flag to __vmalloc_node_range().
> I assume you're referring to "mm/vmalloc: switch to bulk allocator in
> __vmalloc_area_node()"?
>
> Please be quite specific when identifying patches. More specific than
> "the recent patches"!
sorry!
I was referring to this one:
121e6f3258fe393e22c36f61a ("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings")
which introduces the flag VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP
I will reword the commit to be more specific
> Also, it appears from the discussion at
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YKUWKFyLdqTYliwu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx that we'll be
> seeing a new version of "mm/vmalloc: switch to bulk allocator in
> __vmalloc_area_node()". Would it be better to build these s390 fixes
> into the next version of that patch series rather than as a separate
> followup thing?
>
