Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] mm: intorduce __GFP_UNMAPPED and unmapped_alloc()

[Song Liu <song@kernel.org>]

On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 10:25 AM Kent Overstreet
<kent.overstreet@linux.dev> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 10:15:59AM -0700, Song Liu wrote:
> > On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 9:58 AM Kent Overstreet
> > <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 09:33:20AM -0700, Song Liu wrote:
> > > > I am working on patches based on the discussion in [1]. I am planning to
> > > > send v1 for review in a week or so.
> > >
> > > For reference, here's my own (early, but functioning :) slab allocator:
> > >
> > > Look forward to comparing!
> >
> > This looks similar to the bpf_prog_pack allocator we use for BPF at the
> > moment. (search for bpf_prog_pack in kernel/bpf/core.c). I guess we
> > can also use bpf_prog_pack for bcachefs for now.
>
> The code in bpf/core.c does a _lot_, my preference would be to split
> that up and refactor the bpf code to use something generic :)

The code is actually splitted into two parts:

   bpf_prog_pack_[alloc|free] vs. bpf_jit_binary_pack_[alloc|free].

The latter has logic just for BPF. But the former can be reused by
other users (maybe with a little refactoring).

Once the vmap_area based solution is committed, we will replace the
former with the new allocator.

Thanks,
Song