Re: [PATCH v4 bpf 2/4] page_alloc: use vmalloc_huge for large system hash

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Linus,

On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 10:18 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 12:07 AM Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > vmalloc_huge() is provided by mm/vmalloc.c, which is not
> > compiled if CONFIG_MMU=n.
>
> Well, that's annoying.
>
> Does this trivial patch fix it for you?

Thanks, yes it does.
(at least it fixes the m5272c3_defconfig build, no hardware to test).

> I get this feeling that this could be done better with a weak alias to
> __vmalloc(), and that could take care of the "arch doesn't support
> VMAP_HUGE" case too, but the attached is the stupid and
> straightforward version.

Sounds reasonable.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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