On Mon, 14 Jun 2021, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:

Commit 121e6f3258fe3 ("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings") added
support for hugepage vmalloc mappings, it also added the flag
VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP for __vmalloc_node_range to request the allocation to
be performed with 0-order non-huge pages.  This flag is not accessible
when calling vmalloc, the only option is to call directly
__vmalloc_node_range, which is not exported.

This means that a module can't vmalloc memory with small pages.

Case in point: KVM on s390x needs to vmalloc a large area, and it needs
to be mapped with non-huge pages, because of a hardware limitation.

This patch adds the function vmalloc_no_huge, which works like vmalloc,
but it is guaranteed to always back the mapping using small pages. This
new function is exported, therefore it is usable by modules.

Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>