From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@windriver.com>
Cc: rppt@kernel.org, ardb@kernel.org, linus.walleij@linaro.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, carver4lio@163.com,
tiantao6@hisilicon.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: make the size of vmalloc in cmdline and meminfo uniform
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 13:06:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210518120633.GW12395@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210518112932.GV12395@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 12:29:32PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 07:12:54PM +0800, Yanfei Xu wrote:
> > The value of "vmalloc=" set in cmdline is always 8M more than the value
> > of "VmallocTotal" in meminfo. When use the "vmalloc=" parameter, user
> > expect to get the size what they input, and no need to consider the 8M
> > "hole" hided in codes. This commit make real vmalloc size equal to value
> > of "vmalloc=" in cmdline.
> >
> > Also, the commit will reduce the size of vmalloc printed in boot message
> > by 8M when the size set in cmdline is irrational.
>
> Hi,
>
> I think I'd like to do several cleanups with this:
>
> 1. change vmalloc_min to be an unsigned long.
> 2. exclude VMALLOC_OFFSET from vmalloc_min, moving it into
> adjust_lowmem_bounds where vmalloc_min is used.
> 3. rename vmalloc_min to be vmalloc_start
> 4. enforce vmalloc_start to be a multiple of 2MiB
> 5. in early_vmalloc(), calculate vmalloc_max as:
> VMALLOC_END - (PAGE_OFFSET + SZ_32M + VMALLOC_OFFSET)
> and use that to set the upper bound of vmalloc_reserve (which is
> something your patch doesn't do, which I think is a bug.
>
> Thoughts?
I've slightly modified the above idea, and will shortly follow up with
some patches to show the idea a bit better...
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-18 11:12 [PATCH] arm: make the size of vmalloc in cmdline and meminfo uniform Yanfei Xu
2021-05-18 11:29 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-05-18 12:06 ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
2021-05-18 12:15 ` [PATCH 1/4] ARM: change vmalloc_min to be unsigned long Russell King (Oracle)
2021-05-18 22:09 ` Linus Walleij
2021-05-18 12:15 ` [PATCH 2/4] ARM: use a temporary variable to hold maximum vmalloc size Russell King (Oracle)
2021-05-18 22:11 ` Linus Walleij
2021-05-18 12:15 ` [PATCH 3/4] ARM: change vmalloc_min to vmalloc_start Russell King (Oracle)
2021-05-18 22:19 ` Linus Walleij
2021-05-18 22:26 ` Nicolas Pitre
2021-05-18 22:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2021-05-18 22:34 ` Linus Walleij
2021-05-18 22:38 ` Nicolas Pitre
2021-05-28 9:55 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-05-19 4:41 ` Xu, Yanfei
2021-05-20 9:00 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-05-28 2:52 ` Xu, Yanfei
2021-05-28 10:00 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-05-19 5:25 ` Xu, Yanfei
2021-05-18 12:15 ` [PATCH 4/4] ARM: change vmalloc_start to vmalloc_size Russell King (Oracle)
2021-05-18 22:21 ` Linus Walleij
2021-05-19 4:39 ` [PATCH] arm: make the size of vmalloc in cmdline and meminfo uniform Xu, Yanfei
2021-05-19 5:32 ` Xu, Yanfei
2021-05-20 4:52 ` Alexander Dahl
2021-05-20 6:50 ` Xu, Yanfei
2021-05-28 10:11 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] ARM: change vmalloc_min to be unsigned long Russell King (Oracle)
2021-05-28 13:10 ` Xu, Yanfei
2021-05-28 10:11 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] ARM: use a temporary variable to hold maximum vmalloc size Russell King (Oracle)
2021-05-28 13:11 ` Xu, Yanfei
2021-05-28 10:11 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] ARM: change vmalloc_min to vmalloc_start Russell King (Oracle)
2021-05-28 12:21 ` Linus Walleij
2021-05-28 13:05 ` Xu, Yanfei
2021-05-28 10:11 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] ARM: change vmalloc_start to vmalloc_size Russell King (Oracle)
2021-05-28 12:22 ` Linus Walleij
2021-05-28 13:15 ` Xu, Yanfei
2021-05-28 10:11 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] ARM: use "* SZ_1M" rather than "<< 20" Russell King (Oracle)
2021-05-28 12:23 ` Linus Walleij
2021-05-28 13:17 ` Xu, Yanfei
2021-05-28 10:11 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] ARM: use MiB for vmalloc sizes Russell King (Oracle)
2021-05-28 12:24 ` Linus Walleij
2021-05-28 13:20 ` Xu, Yanfei
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