From: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 10/10] mm/vmalloc: Update __vmalloc_node_range() documentation
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:40:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250915134041.151462-11-urezki@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250915134041.151462-1-urezki@gmail.com>
__vmalloc() function now supports non-blocking flags such as
GFP_ATOMIC and GFP_NOWAIT. Update the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 21 +++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 2d4e22dd04f7..e56d576b46c8 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -3880,19 +3880,20 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
* @caller: caller's return address
*
* Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level
- * allocator with @gfp_mask flags. Please note that the full set of gfp
- * flags are not supported. GFP_KERNEL, GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO are all
- * supported.
- * Zone modifiers are not supported. From the reclaim modifiers
- * __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is required (aka GFP_NOWAIT is not supported)
- * and only __GFP_NOFAIL is supported (i.e. __GFP_NORETRY and
- * __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL are not supported).
+ * allocator with @gfp_mask flags and map them into contiguous
+ * virtual range with protection @prot.
*
- * __GFP_NOWARN can be used to suppress failures messages.
+ * Supported GFP classes: %GFP_KERNEL, %GFP_ATOMIC, %GFP_NOWAIT,
+ * %GFP_NOFS and %GFP_NOIO. Zone modifiers are not supported.
+ * Please note %GFP_ATOMIC and %GFP_NOWAIT are supported only
+ * by __vmalloc().
+
+ * Retry modifiers: only %__GFP_NOFAIL is supported; %__GFP_NORETRY
+ * and %__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL are not supported.
*
- * Map them into contiguous kernel virtual space, using a pagetable
- * protection of @prot.
+ * %__GFP_NOWARN can be used to suppress failure messages.
*
+ * Can not be called from interrupt nor NMI contexts.
* Return: the address of the area or %NULL on failure
*/
void *__vmalloc_node_range_noprof(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-15 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-15 13:40 [PATCH v2 00/10] __vmalloc() and no-block support(v2) Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2025-09-15 13:40 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] lib/test_vmalloc: add no_block_alloc_test case Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2025-09-15 13:40 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] lib/test_vmalloc: Remove xfail condition check Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2025-09-15 13:40 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] mm/vmalloc: Support non-blocking GFP flags in alloc_vmap_area() Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2025-09-18 2:56 ` Baoquan He
2025-09-15 13:40 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] mm/vmalloc: Avoid cond_resched() when blocking is not permitted Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2025-09-15 17:11 ` Michal Hocko
2025-09-16 15:28 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2025-09-16 18:08 ` Michal Hocko
2025-09-17 5:22 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2025-09-18 2:57 ` Baoquan He
2025-09-15 13:40 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] mm/vmalloc: Defer freeing partly initialized vm_struct Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2025-09-18 2:59 ` Baoquan He
2025-09-15 13:40 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] mm/vmalloc: Handle non-blocking GFP in __vmalloc_area_node() Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2025-09-18 3:01 ` Baoquan He
2025-09-15 13:40 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] mm/kasan: Support non-blocking GFP in kasan_populate_vmalloc() Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2025-09-18 3:02 ` Baoquan He
2025-09-18 14:56 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2025-09-15 13:40 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] kmsan: Remove hard-coded GFP_KERNEL flags Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2025-09-15 13:40 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] mm: Skip might_alloc() warnings when PF_MEMALLOC is set Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2025-09-15 17:16 ` Michal Hocko
2025-09-16 15:23 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2025-09-15 13:40 ` Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) [this message]
2025-09-15 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] mm/vmalloc: Update __vmalloc_node_range() documentation Michal Hocko
2025-09-16 15:34 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2025-09-16 0:34 ` kernel test robot
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