Re: [PATCH v13 14/14] powerpc/64s/radix: Enable huge vmalloc mappings

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Excerpts from Andrew Morton's message of April 16, 2021 4:55 am:
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 12:23:55 +0200 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > +	 * is done. STRICT_MODULE_RWX may require extra work to support this
>> > +	 * too.
>> > +	 */
>> >   
>> > -	return __vmalloc_node_range(size, 1, MODULES_VADDR, MODULES_END, GFP_KERNEL,
>> > -				    PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS, NUMA_NO_NODE,
>> 
>> 
>> I think you should add the following in <asm/pgtable.h>
>> 
>> #ifndef MODULES_VADDR
>> #define MODULES_VADDR VMALLOC_START
>> #define MODULES_END VMALLOC_END
>> #endif
>> 
>> And leave module_alloc() as is (just removing the enclosing #ifdef MODULES_VADDR and adding the 
>> VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP  flag)
>> 
>> This would minimise the conflits with the changes I did in powerpc/next reported by Stephen R.
>> 
> 
> I'll drop powerpc-64s-radix-enable-huge-vmalloc-mappings.patch for now,
> make life simpler.

Yeah that's fine.

> Nick, a redo on top of Christophe's changes in linux-next would be best
> please.

Will do.

Thanks,
Nick




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