Re: [PATCH v9 07/10] mm/vmalloc: extend page table walk to support larger page_shift sizes and eliminate page table rewalk

[Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 02:28:29PM +0800, Wen Jiang wrote:
> From: "Barry Song (Xiaomi)" <baohua@kernel.org>
> 
> vmap_pages_range_noflush_walk() (formerly vmap_small_pages_range_noflush())
> provides a clean interface by taking struct page **pages and mapping them
> via direct PTE iteration. This avoids the page table rewalk seen when
> using vmap_range_noflush() for page_shift values other than PAGE_SHIFT.
> 
> Extend it to support larger page_shift values, and add PMD- and
> contiguous-PTE mappings as well.
> 
> Rename it to vmap_pages_range_noflush_walk() since it now handles
> more than just small pages.
> 
> For vmalloc() allocations with VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP, we no longer need to
> iterate over pages one by one via vmap_range_noflush(), which would
> otherwise lead to page table rewalk. The code is now unified with the
> PAGE_SHIFT case by simply calling vmap_pages_range_noflush_walk().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Barry Song (Xiaomi) <baohua@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Wen Jiang <jiangwen6@xiaomi.com>
> Tested-by: Xueyuan Chen <xueyuan.chen21@gmail.com>
> Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
> ---
>  mm/vmalloc.c | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>  1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index d475e52110e4a..6e0dec73107a7 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -558,8 +558,10 @@ void vunmap_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
>  
>  static int vmap_pages_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
>  		unsigned long end, pgprot_t prot, struct page **pages, int *nr,
> -		pgtbl_mod_mask *mask)
> +		pgtbl_mod_mask *mask, unsigned int shift)
>  {
> +	unsigned long pfn, size;
> +	unsigned int steps;
>  	int err = 0;
>  	pte_t *pte;
>  
> @@ -590,9 +592,10 @@ static int vmap_pages_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
>  			break;
>  		}
>  
> -		set_pte_at(&init_mm, addr, pte, mk_pte(page, prot));
> -		(*nr)++;
> -	} while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
> +		pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
> +		size = vmap_set_ptes(pte, addr, end, pfn, prot, shift);
> +		steps = PFN_DOWN(size);
> +	} while (pte += steps, *nr += steps, addr += size, addr != end);
>
nr_mapped_pages?

>  
>  	lazy_mmu_mode_disable();
>  	*mask |= PGTBL_PTE_MODIFIED;
> @@ -602,60 +605,88 @@ static int vmap_pages_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
>  
>  static int vmap_pages_pmd_range(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr,
>  		unsigned long end, pgprot_t prot, struct page **pages, int *nr,
> -		pgtbl_mod_mask *mask)
> +		pgtbl_mod_mask *mask, unsigned int shift)
>  {
>  	pmd_t *pmd;
>  	unsigned long next;
> +	int err;
>  
>  	pmd = pmd_alloc_track(&init_mm, pud, addr, mask);
>  	if (!pmd)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	do {
>  		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
> -		if (vmap_pages_pte_range(pmd, addr, next, prot, pages, nr, mask))
> -			return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +		if (shift >= PMD_SHIFT) {
> +			struct page *page = pages[*nr];
> +			phys_addr_t phys_addr;
> +
> +			if (WARN_ON(!page))
> +				return -ENOMEM;
> +			if (WARN_ON(!pfn_valid(page_to_pfn(page))))
> +				return -EINVAL;
> +
> +			phys_addr = page_to_phys(page);
> +
> +			if (vmap_try_huge_pmd(pmd, addr, next, phys_addr, prot, shift)) {
> +				*mask |= PGTBL_PMD_MODIFIED;
> +				*nr += 1 << (PMD_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT);
>
*nr += 1 << (PMD_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT); --->  *nr += 1U << (PMD_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT);
as it used to be?

> +				continue;
> +			}
> +		}
> +		err = vmap_pages_pte_range(pmd, addr, next, prot, pages, nr, mask, shift);
> +		if (err)
> +			return err;
>  	} while (pmd++, addr = next, addr != end);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static int vmap_pages_pud_range(p4d_t *p4d, unsigned long addr,
>  		unsigned long end, pgprot_t prot, struct page **pages, int *nr,
> -		pgtbl_mod_mask *mask)
> +		pgtbl_mod_mask *mask, unsigned int shift)
>  {
>  	pud_t *pud;
>  	unsigned long next;
> +	int err;
>  
>  	pud = pud_alloc_track(&init_mm, p4d, addr, mask);
>  	if (!pud)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	do {
>  		next = pud_addr_end(addr, end);
> -		if (vmap_pages_pmd_range(pud, addr, next, prot, pages, nr, mask))
> -			return -ENOMEM;
> +		err = vmap_pages_pmd_range(pud, addr, next, prot, pages, nr, mask, shift);
> +		if (err)
> +			return err;
>  	} while (pud++, addr = next, addr != end);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static int vmap_pages_p4d_range(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long addr,
>  		unsigned long end, pgprot_t prot, struct page **pages, int *nr,
> -		pgtbl_mod_mask *mask)
> +		pgtbl_mod_mask *mask, unsigned int shift)
>  {
>  	p4d_t *p4d;
>  	unsigned long next;
> +	int err;
>  
>  	p4d = p4d_alloc_track(&init_mm, pgd, addr, mask);
>  	if (!p4d)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	do {
>  		next = p4d_addr_end(addr, end);
> -		if (vmap_pages_pud_range(p4d, addr, next, prot, pages, nr, mask))
> -			return -ENOMEM;
> +		err = vmap_pages_pud_range(p4d, addr, next, prot, pages, nr, mask, shift);
> +		if (err)
> +			return err;
>  	} while (p4d++, addr = next, addr != end);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static int vmap_small_pages_range_noflush(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
> -		pgprot_t prot, struct page **pages)
> +/*
> + * It can take an array of pages which are not all contiguous, but it
> + * may have contiguous chunks, as hinted by @shift.
> + */
> +static int vmap_pages_range_noflush_walk(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
> +		pgprot_t prot, struct page **pages, unsigned int shift)
>  {
>  	unsigned long start = addr;
>  	pgd_t *pgd;
> @@ -670,7 +701,7 @@ static int vmap_small_pages_range_noflush(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
>  		next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
>  		if (pgd_bad(*pgd))
>  			mask |= PGTBL_PGD_MODIFIED;
> -		err = vmap_pages_p4d_range(pgd, addr, next, prot, pages, &nr, &mask);
> +		err = vmap_pages_p4d_range(pgd, addr, next, prot, pages, &nr, &mask, shift);
>  		if (err)
>  			break;
>  	} while (pgd++, addr = next, addr != end);
> @@ -693,27 +724,12 @@ static int vmap_small_pages_range_noflush(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
>  int __vmap_pages_range_noflush(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
>  		pgprot_t prot, struct page **pages, unsigned int page_shift)
>  {
> -	unsigned int i, nr = (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> -
>  	WARN_ON(page_shift < PAGE_SHIFT);
>
This is not about this patch but probably on that WARN_ON we should bail out
early.

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Uladzislau Rezki