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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, frankja@linux.ibm.com,
	cohuck@redhat.com, david@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm/vmalloc: export __vmalloc_node_range
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 06:24:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YMGiFya4JP9VuV0Y@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6bf6fb06-0930-8cae-3e2b-8cb3237a6197@de.ibm.com>

On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 07:47:43PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> An alternative would be to provide a vmalloc_no_huge function in generic
> code  (similar to  vmalloc_32) (or if preferred in s390 base architecture code)
> Something like
> 
> void *vmalloc_no_huge(unsigned long size)
> {
>         return __vmalloc_node_flags(size, NUMA_NO_NODE,VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP |
>                                 GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_no_huge);
> 
> or a similar vzalloc variant.

Exactly.  Given that this seems to be a weird pecularity of legacy s390
interfaces I'd only export it for 390 for now, although for
documentation purposes I'd probably still keep it in vmalloc.c.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-10  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-08 18:06 [PATCH v2 0/2] mm: export __vmalloc_node_range and use it Claudio Imbrenda
2021-06-08 18:06 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] mm/vmalloc: export __vmalloc_node_range Claudio Imbrenda
2021-06-09 15:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-09 16:28     ` Claudio Imbrenda
2021-06-09 16:49       ` Uladzislau Rezki
2021-06-09 17:50         ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-06-09 17:47       ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-06-10  5:24         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-06-08 18:06 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: s390: fix for hugepage vmalloc Claudio Imbrenda
2021-06-08 18:52   ` Christian Borntraeger

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