On 06/20/2018 03:09 PM, Rick Edgecombe wrote:
> Create __vmalloc_node_try_addr function that tries to allocate at a specific
> address. The implementation relies on __vmalloc_node_range for the bulk of the
> work. To keep this function from spamming the logs when an allocation failure
> is fails, __vmalloc_node_range is changed to only warn when __GFP_NOWARN is not
> set. This behavior is consistent with this flags interpretation in
> alloc_vmap_area.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/vmalloc.h | 3 +++
> mm/vmalloc.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
> index 398e9c9..6eaa896 100644
> --- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
> +++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
> @@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ extern void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
> unsigned long start, unsigned long end, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> pgprot_t prot, unsigned long vm_flags, int node,
> const void *caller);
> +extern void *__vmalloc_node_try_addr(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size,
> + gfp_t gfp_mask, pgprot_t prot, unsigned long vm_flags,
> + int node, const void *caller);
> #ifndef CONFIG_MMU
> extern void *__vmalloc_node_flags(unsigned long size, int node, gfp_t flags);
> static inline void *__vmalloc_node_flags_caller(unsigned long size, int node,
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index cfea25b..9e0820c9 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -1710,6 +1710,42 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> }
>
> /**
> + * __vmalloc_try_addr - try to alloc at a specific address
* __vmalloc_node_try_addr - try to allocate at a specific address
> + * @addr: address to try
> + * @size: size to try
> + * @gfp_mask: flags for the page level allocator
> + * @prot: protection mask for the allocated pages
> + * @vm_flags: additional vm area flags (e.g. %VM_NO_GUARD)
> + * @node: node to use for allocation or NUMA_NO_NODE
> + * @caller: caller's return address
> + *
> + * Try to allocate at the specific address. If it succeeds the address is
> + * returned. If it fails NULL is returned. It may trigger TLB flushes.
> + */
> +void *__vmalloc_node_try_addr(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size,
> + gfp_t gfp_mask, pgprot_t prot, unsigned long vm_flags,
> + int node, const void *caller)
> +{
so this isn't optional, eh? You are going to force it on people because?
thanks,
--
~Randy
