From b7d90e7a5ea8d64e668d5685925900d33d3884d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 13:39:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: be more explicit about supported gfp flags The core of the vmalloc allocator __vmalloc_area_node doesn't say anything about gfp mask argument. Not all gfp flags are supported though. Be more explicit about constraints. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211020082545.4830-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> --- mm/vmalloc.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index 75fa100f54240..c56720136c45d 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -2983,8 +2983,16 @@ 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. Map them into contiguous - * kernel virtual space, using a pagetable protection of @prot. + * allocator with @gfp_mask flags. Please note that the full set of gfp + * flags are not supported. GFP_KERNEL would be a preferred allocation mode + * but GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO are supported as well. 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 (aka + * __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL are not supported). + * __GFP_NOWARN can be used to suppress error messages about failures. + * + * Map them into contiguous kernel virtual space, using a pagetable + * protection of @prot. * * Return: the address of the area or %NULL on failure */ -- GitLab