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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Huan Yang <link@vivo.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, bingbu.cao@linux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com, opensource.kernel@vivo.com,
	rppt@kernel.org, ryan.roberts@arm.com, urezki@gmail.com,
	ziy@nvidia.com, vivek.kasireddy@intel.com,
	"Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: fix mischeck pfn valid in vmap_pfns
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 02:57:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z-DKKQcc0dSdSrw8@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250318083330.GB18902@lst.de>

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 09:33:30AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 04:20:17PM +0800, Huan Yang wrote:
> > This prevents us from properly invoking vmap, which is why we have turned to using vmap_pfn instead.
> >
> > Even if a folio-based vmap is implemented, it still cannot handle mapping multiple folio ranges of physical
> >
> > memory to vmalloc regions. A range of folio is important, it maybe an offset in memfd, no need entire folio.
> >
> > So, I still consider vmap_pfn to be the optimal solution for this specific scenario. :)
> 
> No, vmap_pfn is entirely for memory not backed by pages or folios,
> i.e. PCIe BARs and similar memory.  This must not be mixed with proper
> folio backed memory.
> 
> So you'll need a vmap for folios to support this use case.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250131001806.92349-1-vishal.moola@gmail.com/
seems like a good match for "we need to vmap a range from a file".

Vishal has some updates since this version, and I'm sure he can send
them out after LSFMM.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-03-24  2:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-12  6:15 Huan Yang
2025-03-12  6:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-03-17  2:12   ` Huan Yang
2025-03-17  5:29     ` Bingbu Cao
2025-03-17  5:53       ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-03-17  7:42         ` Huan Yang
2025-03-18  6:48           ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-03-18  8:20             ` Huan Yang
2025-03-18  8:33               ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-03-18  8:39                 ` Huan Yang
2025-03-18  8:44                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-03-18  8:50                     ` Huan Yang
     [not found]                     ` <20250319050359.3484-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2025-03-19  8:08                       ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]                       ` <20250319112651.3502-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2025-03-24  2:13                         ` Huan Yang
2025-03-25  6:32                           ` Kasireddy, Vivek
2025-03-25  6:46                             ` Bingbu Cao
2025-03-27 13:40                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-03-28  6:13                             ` Huan Yang
2025-03-19  9:09                     ` Gao Xiang
2025-03-20  5:31                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-03-24  2:22                         ` Huan Yang
2025-03-24  2:57                 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2025-03-17  6:26       ` Huan Yang

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