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Patch series "mm/vmalloc: free unused pages on vrealloc() shrink", v14. This series implements the TODO in vrealloc() to unmap and free unused pages when shrinking across a page boundary. Problem: When vrealloc() shrinks an allocation, it updates bookkeeping (requested_size, KASAN shadow) but does not free the underlying physical pages. This wastes memory for the lifetime of the allocation. Solution: - Patch 1: Extracts a vm_area_free_pages(vm, start_idx, end_idx) helper from vfree() that frees a range of pages with memcg and nr_vmalloc_pages accounting. Freed page pointers are set to NULL to prevent stale references. - Patch 2: Update the grow-in-place check in vrealloc() to compare the requested size against the actual physical page count (vm->nr_pages) rather than the virtual area sizes. This is a prerequisite for shrinking. - Patch 3: For VM_ALLOC areas in vread_iter(), derive the vm area size from vm->nr_pages rather than get_vm_area_size(), which would overestimate the mapped range after a shrink. Other mapping types (vmap, ioremap) don't set nr_pages and keep using get_vm_area_size(). - Patch 4: Uses the helper to free tail pages when vrealloc() shrinks across a page boundary. - Patch 5: Adds a vrealloc test case to lib/test_vmalloc that exercises grow-realloc, shrink-across-boundary, shrink-within-page, and grow-in-place paths. The virtual address reservation is kept intact to preserve the range for potential future grow-in-place support. A concrete user is the Rust binder driver's KVVec::shrink_to [1], which performs explicit vrealloc() shrinks for memory reclamation. This patch (of 5): Extract page freeing and NR_VMALLOC stat accounting from vfree() into a reusable vm_area_free_pages() helper. The helper operates on a range [start_idx, end_idx) of pages from a vm_struct, making it suitable for both full free (vfree) and partial free (upcoming vrealloc shrink). Freed page pointers in vm->pages[] are set to NULL to prevent stale references when the vm_struct outlives the free (as in vrealloc shrink). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260519-vmalloc-shrink-v14-0-70b96ee3e9c9@zohomail.in Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260519-vmalloc-shrink-v14-1-70b96ee3e9c9@zohomail.in Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260216-binder-shrink-vec-v3-v6-0-ece8e8593e53@zohomail.in/ [1] Signed-off-by: Shivam Kalra <shivamkalra98@zohomail.in> Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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