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vmalloc enhancements

Roman Gushchin linux-mm lkml 3 versions – In review

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  1. v4 Latest2 patches 6 repliesIn review
  2. v23 patches 5 repliesSuperseded
  3. v13 patches 3 repliesSuperseded

v4->v3 from the cover letter

- rebased on top of current mm tree
- dropped alloc_vmap_area() refactoring

Patches in v4 No applies recorded yet

#Subject and filesSizeRepliesApplied
1/2mm: refactor __vunmap() to avoid duplicated call to find_vm_area()mm/vmalloc.c+27 -206 replies
2/2mm: show number of vmalloc pages in /proc/meminfofs/proc/meminfo.c include/linux/vmalloc.h mm/vmalloc.c+13 -10 replies

Reviews trailers per patch

All 2 patches have a Reviewed-by or Acked-by.

PatchJohannes WeinerMatthew WilcoxVlastimil Babka
1/2A-b R-b A-b
2/2A-b A-b

Trailers given in replies are filled; those carried in the patches from earlier versions are outlined with dashes. Scroll the table sideways for all 3 reviewers.

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Cover letter [PATCH v4 0/2] vmalloc enhancements

The patchset removes a redundant operation in __vunmap() and exports a number of pages, used by vmalloc(), in /proc/meminfo.

Patch (1) removes some redundancy on __vunmap().
Patch (2) adds vmalloc counter to /proc/meminfo.

v4->v3:
- rebased on top of current mm tree
- dropped alloc_vmap_area() refactoring

v3->v2:
- switched back to atomic after more accurate perf measurements:
no visible perf difference
- added perf stacktraces in commmit message of (1)

v2->v1:
- rebased on top of current mm tree
- switch from atomic to percpu vmalloc page counter

RFC->v1:
- removed bogus empty lines (suggested by Matthew Wilcox)
- made nr_vmalloc_pages static (suggested by Matthew Wilcox)
- dropped patch 3 from RFC patchset, will post later with some other changes
- dropped RFC

Roman Gushchin (2):
mm: refactor __vunmap() to avoid duplicated call to find_vm_area()
mm: show number of vmalloc pages in /proc/meminfo

 fs/proc/meminfo.c       |  2 +-
 include/linux/vmalloc.h |  2 ++
 mm/vmalloc.c            | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
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