From 86dc0280b807098d0cf15348719a01426aea0ea1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 12:28:30 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: make set_area_direct_map HUGE_VMAP friendly set_area_direct_map() always updates direct map alias permissions in single page increments. For HUGE_VMAP areas it's suboptimal. Not only the loop in set_area_direct_map() needlessly has more iterations (e.g times 512 on x86), but it also causes fragmentation of the direct map that could be avoided for the HUGE_VMAP areas populated with large pages. All pages in an area are always of the same order: either same-order large pages when VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP is set and all huge pages were successfully allocated, or order-0 page when VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP is cleared or when huge pages allocation fails and fallback path is taken. Instead of updating the direct map permissions for every order-0 page in an area, use the area's page_order as the loop increment and update the large pages in one call to set_direct_map_{invalid,default}_noflush(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260903-execmem-set-vm-perms-v0-2-v3-4-949b64a9f755@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Dev Jain Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: Brendan Jackman Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Len Brown Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Will Deacon --- mm/vmalloc.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index a3e2e4244c0f..395358b363fc 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -3361,12 +3361,15 @@ static inline void set_area_direct_map(const struct vm_struct *area, int (*set_direct_map)(struct page *page, unsigned int nr)) { - unsigned long i; + unsigned int nr = (1U << vm_area_page_order(area)); - /* HUGE_VMALLOC passes small pages to set_direct_map */ - for (i = 0; i < area->nr_pages; i++) - if (page_address(area->pages[i])) - set_direct_map(area->pages[i], 1); + for (unsigned long i = 0; i < area->nr_pages; i += nr) { + if (page_address(area->pages[i])) { + int err = set_direct_map(area->pages[i], nr); + + WARN_ON_ONCE(err); + } + } } /*