[RFC PATCH 5/8] mm/vmalloc: map contiguous pages in batches for vmap() if possible

Barry Song (Xiaomi) baohua at kernel.org
Tue Apr 7 19:51:12 PDT 2026


In many cases, the pages passed to vmap() may include high-order
pages allocated with __GFP_COMP flags. For example, the systemheap
often allocates pages in descending order: order 8, then 4, then 0.
Currently, vmap() iterates over every page individually—even pages
inside a high-order block are handled one by one.

This patch detects high-order pages and maps them as a single
contiguous block whenever possible.

An alternative would be to implement a new API, vmap_sg(), but that
change seems to be large in scope.

Signed-off-by: Barry Song (Xiaomi) <baohua at kernel.org>
---
 mm/vmalloc.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index eba436386929..e8dbfada42bc 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -3529,6 +3529,53 @@ void vunmap(const void *addr)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vunmap);
 
+static inline int get_vmap_batch_order(struct page **pages,
+		unsigned int max_steps, unsigned int idx)
+{
+	unsigned int nr_pages;
+
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP) ||
+			ioremap_max_page_shift == PAGE_SHIFT)
+		return 0;
+
+	nr_pages = compound_nr(pages[idx]);
+	if (nr_pages == 1 || max_steps < nr_pages)
+		return 0;
+
+	if (num_pages_contiguous(&pages[idx], nr_pages) == nr_pages)
+		return compound_order(pages[idx]);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int vmap_contig_pages_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
+		pgprot_t prot, struct page **pages)
+{
+	unsigned int count = (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+	int err;
+
+	err = kmsan_vmap_pages_range_noflush(addr, end, prot, pages,
+						PAGE_SHIFT, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (err)
+		goto out;
+
+	for (unsigned int i = 0; i < count; ) {
+		unsigned int shift = PAGE_SHIFT +
+			get_vmap_batch_order(pages, count - i, i);
+
+		err = vmap_range_noflush(addr, addr + (1UL << shift),
+				page_to_phys(pages[i]), prot, shift);
+		if (err)
+			goto out;
+
+		addr += 1UL << shift;
+		i += 1U << (shift - PAGE_SHIFT);
+	}
+
+out:
+	flush_cache_vmap(addr, end);
+	return err;
+}
+
 /**
  * vmap - map an array of pages into virtually contiguous space
  * @pages: array of page pointers
@@ -3572,8 +3619,8 @@ void *vmap(struct page **pages, unsigned int count,
 		return NULL;
 
 	addr = (unsigned long)area->addr;
-	if (vmap_pages_range(addr, addr + size, pgprot_nx(prot),
-				pages, PAGE_SHIFT) < 0) {
+	if (vmap_contig_pages_range(addr, addr + size, pgprot_nx(prot),
+				pages) < 0) {
 		vunmap(area->addr);
 		return NULL;
 	}
-- 
2.39.3 (Apple Git-146)




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