[PATCH v3 3/3] arm64: Silence first allocation with CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS=y

[Florian Fainelli]

On 05/03/2017 04:18 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 11:19:02AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> When CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS is enabled, the first allocation using the
>> module space fails, because the module is too big, and then the module
>> allocation is attempted from vmalloc space. Silence the first allocation
>> failure in that case by setting __GFP_NOWARN.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/kernel/module.c | 7 ++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> I'm not sure what the merge plan is for these, but the arm64 bit here
> looks fine to me:
> 
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

Thanks, not sure either, would you or Catalin want to pick this series?

> 
> Will
> 
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/module.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/module.c
>> index 7f316982ce00..093c13541efb 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/module.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/module.c
>> @@ -32,11 +32,16 @@
>>  
>>  void *module_alloc(unsigned long size)
>>  {
>> +	gfp_t gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL;
>>  	void *p;
>>  
>> +	/* Silence the initial allocation */
>> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS))
>> +		gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOWARN;
>> +
>>  	p = __vmalloc_node_range(size, MODULE_ALIGN, module_alloc_base,
>>  				module_alloc_base + MODULES_VSIZE,
>> -				GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, 0,
>> +				gfp_mask, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, 0,
>>  				NUMA_NO_NODE, __builtin_return_address(0));
>>  
>>  	if (!p && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS) &&
>> -- 
>> 2.9.3
>>


-- 
Florian