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* [PATCH] arm64: support huge vmalloc mappings
@ 2022-09-07 11:49 Kefeng Wang
  2022-09-09 17:38 ` Catalin Marinas
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Kefeng Wang @ 2022-09-07 11:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon
  Cc: linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel, Jonathan Corbet, Kefeng Wang

As commit 59089e0a93d ("vmalloc: replace VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP with
VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP"), the use of hugepage mappings for vmalloc
is an opt-in strategy, so it is saftly to support huge vmalloc
mappings on arm64, for now, it is used in kvmalloc() and
alloc_large_system_hash().

Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +-
 arch/arm64/Kconfig                              | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 2434c6729f1c..33b7998f0170 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3617,7 +3617,7 @@
 
 	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
 
-	nohugevmalloc	[PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
+	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
 
 	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
 			Equivalent to smt=1.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index b3073f6f6c3a..500979dfde37 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ config ARM64
 	select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
 	select HAVE_ARCH_BITREVERSE
 	select HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
+	select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC
 	select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
 	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
 	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
-- 
2.35.3


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