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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>2017-05-08 15:57:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-05-08 17:15:13 -0700
commit19809c2da28aee5860ad9a2eff760730a0710df0 (patch)
tree19c6c68f96d55ea25b71040a448c6890301a19f6 /kernel
parent54f180d3c181277457fb003dd9524c2aa1ef8160 (diff)
downloadlinux-19809c2da28aee5860ad9a2eff760730a0710df0.tar.bz2
mm, vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly
__vmalloc* allows users to provide gfp flags for the underlying allocation. This API is quite popular $ git grep "=[[:space:]]__vmalloc\|return[[:space:]]*__vmalloc" | wc -l 77 The only problem is that many people are not aware that they really want to give __GFP_HIGHMEM along with other flags because there is really no reason to consume precious lowmemory on CONFIG_HIGHMEM systems for pages which are mapped to the kernel vmalloc space. About half of users don't use this flag, though. This signals that we make the API unnecessarily too complex. This patch simply uses __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly when allocating pages to be mapped to the vmalloc space. Current users which add __GFP_HIGHMEM are simplified and drop the flag. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170307141020.29107-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Cristopher Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/bpf/core.c9
-rw-r--r--kernel/bpf/syscall.c3
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/groups.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c2
5 files changed, 7 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/core.c b/kernel/bpf/core.c
index 6f81e0f5a0fa..dedf367f59bb 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/core.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/core.c
@@ -76,8 +76,7 @@ void *bpf_internal_load_pointer_neg_helper(const struct sk_buff *skb, int k, uns
struct bpf_prog *bpf_prog_alloc(unsigned int size, gfp_t gfp_extra_flags)
{
- gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO |
- gfp_extra_flags;
+ gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | gfp_extra_flags;
struct bpf_prog_aux *aux;
struct bpf_prog *fp;
@@ -107,8 +106,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bpf_prog_alloc);
struct bpf_prog *bpf_prog_realloc(struct bpf_prog *fp_old, unsigned int size,
gfp_t gfp_extra_flags)
{
- gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO |
- gfp_extra_flags;
+ gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | gfp_extra_flags;
struct bpf_prog *fp;
u32 pages, delta;
int ret;
@@ -655,8 +653,7 @@ out:
static struct bpf_prog *bpf_prog_clone_create(struct bpf_prog *fp_other,
gfp_t gfp_extra_flags)
{
- gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO |
- gfp_extra_flags;
+ gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | gfp_extra_flags;
struct bpf_prog *fp;
fp = __vmalloc(fp_other->pages * PAGE_SIZE, gfp_flags, PAGE_KERNEL);
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
index 13642c73dca0..fd2411fd6914 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
@@ -67,8 +67,7 @@ void *bpf_map_area_alloc(size_t size)
return area;
}
- return __vmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | flags,
- PAGE_KERNEL);
+ return __vmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | flags, PAGE_KERNEL);
}
void bpf_map_area_free(void *area)
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 55e325f4b457..08ba696aa561 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node)
stack = __vmalloc_node_range(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE,
VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END,
- THREADINFO_GFP | __GFP_HIGHMEM,
+ THREADINFO_GFP,
PAGE_KERNEL,
0, node, __builtin_return_address(0));
diff --git a/kernel/groups.c b/kernel/groups.c
index 8dd7a61b7115..d09727692a2a 100644
--- a/kernel/groups.c
+++ b/kernel/groups.c
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ struct group_info *groups_alloc(int gidsetsize)
len = sizeof(struct group_info) + sizeof(kgid_t) * gidsetsize;
gi = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY);
if (!gi)
- gi = __vmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_HIGHMEM, PAGE_KERNEL);
+ gi = __vmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT, PAGE_KERNEL);
if (!gi)
return NULL;
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index f37308b733d8..2b316b954828 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2864,7 +2864,7 @@ static int copy_module_from_user(const void __user *umod, unsigned long len,
/* Suck in entire file: we'll want most of it. */
info->hdr = __vmalloc(info->len,
- GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_NOWARN, PAGE_KERNEL);
+ GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN, PAGE_KERNEL);
if (!info->hdr)
return -ENOMEM;