Re: [PATCH] regset: use vmalloc() for regset_get_alloc()

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Hi,

On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 11:43 AM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 06:07:54PM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
>
> > So, if the only reason for trying to migrate to vmalloc() is to cope
> > with an insanely sized regset on arm64, I think somehow or other we can
> > avoid that.
>
> With SME we do routinely see the full glory of the 64K regset for ZA in
> emulated systems so I think we have to treat it as an issue.

Ah, got it. 64K is much less likely to be as big of a problem (only an
order 4 allocation), but you're right that it's still a size where
kvmalloc() would be an improvement. With that in mind I'll plan to
send out a v2 of my patch where I use kvmalloc() instead of vmalloc()
and update the commit description a bit, including a link to this
thread. Then I will assume that others on this thread will move
forward with actually making the allocations smaller.

Please yell if the above sounds wrong. :-)

-Doug





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