Re: [PATCH v4 bpf 0/4] vmalloc: bpf: introduce VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP

[Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>]

Excerpts from Edgecombe, Rick P's message of April 22, 2022 12:29 pm:
> On Fri, 2022-04-22 at 10:12 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
>> index e163372d3967..70933f4ed069 100644
>> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
>> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
>> @@ -2925,12 +2925,7 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
>>                         if (nr != nr_pages_request)
>>                                 break;
>>                 }
>> -       } else
>> -               /*
>> -                * Compound pages required for remap_vmalloc_page if
>> -                * high-order pages.
>> -                */
>> -               gfp |= __GFP_COMP;
>> +       }
>>  
>>         /* High-order pages or fallback path if "bulk" fails. */
>>  
>> @@ -2944,6 +2939,13 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
>>                         page = alloc_pages_node(nid, gfp, order);
>>                 if (unlikely(!page))
>>                         break;
>> +               /*
>> +                * Higher order allocations must be able to be
>> treated as
>> +                * indepdenent small pages by callers (as they can
>> with
>> +                * small page allocs).
>> +                */
>> +               if (order)
>> +                       split_page(page, order);
>>  
>>                 /*
>>                  * Careful, we allocate and map page-order pages, but
> 
> FWIW, I like this direction. I think it needs to free them differently
> though? Since currently assumes they are high order pages in that path.
> I also wonder if we wouldn't need vm_struct->page_order anymore, and
> all the places that would percolates out to. Basically all the places
> where it iterates through vm_struct->pages with page_order stepping.

To respond to this, I do like having the huge page indicator in
/proc/vmallocinfo. Which is really the only use of it. I might just
keep it in for now.

Thanks,
Nick