Re: [PATCH v13 14/14] powerpc/64s/radix: Enable huge vmalloc mappings

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi all,

On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 11:55:29 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 12:23:55 +0200 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.

I have dropped that patch from linux-next.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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