[PATCH v5 3/4] kho: add support for preserving vmalloc allocations

[Pratyush Yadav]

On Mon, Sep 22 2025, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 10:19:48 -0300 Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com> wrote:
>
>> > +static void kho_vmalloc_free_chunks(struct kho_vmalloc *kho_vmalloc)
>> > +{
>> > +	struct kho_vmalloc_chunk *chunk = KHOSER_LOAD_PTR(kho_vmalloc->first);
>> > +
>> > +	while (chunk) {
>> > +		struct kho_vmalloc_chunk *tmp = chunk;
>> > +
>> > +		kho_vmalloc_unpreserve_chunk(chunk);
>> > +
>> > +		chunk = KHOSER_LOAD_PTR(chunk->hdr.next);
>> > +		kfree(tmp);
>> 
>> Shouldn't this be free_page()?
>
> Or vfree()?

It should be free_page(). The chunk isn't in the vmalloc-ed area, it is
the metadata to track it. It gets allocated in new_vmalloc_chunk() using
get_zeroed_page().

>
> Not sure why this code works - I'll suspend the series from linux-next
> for now.

It only gets called in the error path and that didn't get hit during
testing I suppose. Until v3 the chunk was being allocated using
kzalloc() so I guess this got missed in the move to get_zeroed_page().

I think Mike is out of office this week. Do you think this series is
stable enough to land in the upcoming merge window? If so, I can send a
v6 with the fix today.

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav