Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] vmalloc: Choose a better start address in vm_area_register_early()
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date: 2021-08-04 11:14:22
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On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 10:39:04AM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
On 2021/8/1 23:23, Catalin Marinas wrote:quoted
On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 10:51:03AM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:quoted
There are some fixed locations in the vmalloc area be reserved in ARM(see iotable_init()) and ARM64(see map_kernel()), but for pcpu_page_first_chunk(), it calls vm_area_register_early() and choose VMALLOC_START as the start address of vmap area which could be conflicted with above address, then could trigger a BUG_ON in vm_area_add_early(). Let's choose the end of existing address range in vmlist as the start address instead of VMALLOC_START to avoid the BUG_ON. Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <redacted> --- mm/vmalloc.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index d5cd52805149..a98cf97f032f 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c@@ -2238,12 +2238,14 @@ void __init vm_area_add_early(struct vm_struct *vm) */ void __init vm_area_register_early(struct vm_struct *vm, size_t align) { - static size_t vm_init_off __initdata; + unsigned long vm_start = VMALLOC_START; + struct vm_struct *tmp; unsigned long addr; - addr = ALIGN(VMALLOC_START + vm_init_off, align); - vm_init_off = PFN_ALIGN(addr + vm->size) - VMALLOC_START; + for (tmp = vmlist; tmp; tmp = tmp->next) + vm_start = (unsigned long)tmp->addr + tmp->size; + addr = ALIGN(vm_start, align); vm->addr = (void *)addr; vm_area_add_early(vm);Is there a risk of breaking other architectures? It doesn't look like to me but I thought I'd ask.Before this patch, vm_init_off is to record the offset from VMALLOC_START, but it use VMALLOC_START as start address on the function vm_area_register_early() called firstly, this will cause the BUG_ON. With this patch, the most important change is that we choose the start address via dynamic calculate the 'start' address by traversing the list. [wkf@localhost linux-next]$ git grep vm_area_register_early arch/alpha/mm/init.c: vm_area_register_early(&console_remap_vm, PAGE_SIZE); arch/x86/xen/p2m.c: vm_area_register_early(&vm, PMD_SIZE * PMDS_PER_MID_PAGE); mm/percpu.c: vm_area_register_early(&vm, PAGE_SIZE); [wkf@localhost linux-next]$ git grep vm_area_add_early arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c: vm_area_add_early(vm); arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c: vm_area_add_early(vma); x86/alpha won't call vm_area_add_early(), only arm64 could call both vm_area_add_early() and vm_area_register_early() when this patchset is merged. so it won't break other architectures.
Thanks for checking.
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Also, instead of always picking the end, could we search for a range that fits?We only need a space in vmalloc range, using end or a range in the middle is not different.
I was thinking of making it more future-proof in case one registers a vm area towards the end of the range. It's fairly easy to pick a range in the middle now that you are adding a list traversal. -- Catalin _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel