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SubjectRe: [PATCH v13 14/14] powerpc/64s/radix: Enable huge vmalloc mappings
Excerpts from Andrew Morton's message of April 16, 2021 4:55 am:
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 12:23:55 +0200 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> wrote:
>> > + * is done. STRICT_MODULE_RWX may require extra work to support this
>> > + * too.
>> > + */
>> >
>> > - return __vmalloc_node_range(size, 1, MODULES_VADDR, MODULES_END, GFP_KERNEL,
>> > - PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS, NUMA_NO_NODE,
>>
>>
>> I think you should add the following in <asm/pgtable.h>
>>
>> #ifndef MODULES_VADDR
>> #define MODULES_VADDR VMALLOC_START
>> #define MODULES_END VMALLOC_END
>> #endif
>>
>> And leave module_alloc() as is (just removing the enclosing #ifdef MODULES_VADDR and adding the
>> VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP flag)
>>
>> This would minimise the conflits with the changes I did in powerpc/next reported by Stephen R.
>>
>
> I'll drop powerpc-64s-radix-enable-huge-vmalloc-mappings.patch for now,
> make life simpler.

Yeah that's fine.

> Nick, a redo on top of Christophe's changes in linux-next would be best
> please.

Will do.

Thanks,
Nick

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