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

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Mon May 8 03:07:24 PDT 2017


On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 02:07:28PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 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?

We'd need an Ack from Russell on the arch/arm/ part before we could take
this series.

Will



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