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From: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
To: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
	Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: clarify why vmap_range_noflush() might sleep
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2025 07:39:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DESNXS1K25LW.2E7ZWFWV56PZD@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <96aa9bf7-1f1d-4870-90d2-84d3d6d4254c@arm.com>

Hi Anshuman, thanks a lot for taking a look.

On Mon Dec 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM UTC, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Please add <asm-generic/pgalloc.h> in mm/vmalloc.c - otherwise it does not
> get built as GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL is not available. But otherwise LGTM.

Oh, but that's not correct, IIUC we shouldn't directly be including
asm-generic headers from here.

So while in principle GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL is a sensible common
demoninator here, it doesn't actually exist at all everywhere, e.g. it
doesn't look like m68k defines it for Motorola. 

So maybe the best way here is a really vague:

/* 
 * Different archs allocate pagetables in different ways, assume
 * GFP_KERNEL as a common denominator.
 */
might_alloc(GFP_KERNEL)

... a bit yucky but I think still useful.

Any thoughts?


  reply	other threads:[~2025-12-08  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-08  5:19 Brendan Jackman
2025-12-08  6:41 ` Anshuman Khandual
2025-12-08  7:39   ` Brendan Jackman [this message]
2025-12-08 17:32     ` Uladzislau Rezki
2025-12-08  8:51 ` [syzbot ci] " syzbot ci
2025-12-09  2:56   ` Brendan Jackman
2025-12-09  1:10 ` [PATCH] " kernel test robot
2025-12-09  1:52 ` kernel test robot

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