From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <r...@kernel.org>
Hi,
Following the discussion about preservation of memfd with LUO [1] these
patches add support for preserving vmalloc allocations.
Any KHO uses case presumes that there's a data structure that lists
physical addresses of preserved folios (and potentially some additional
metadata). Allowing vmalloc preservations with KHO allows scalable
preservation of such data structures.
For instance, instead of allocating array describing preserved folios in
the fdt, memfd preservation can use vmalloc:
preserved_folios = vmalloc_array(nr_folios, sizeof(*preserved_folios));
memfd_luo_preserve_folios(preserved_folios, folios, nr_folios);
kho_preserve_vmalloc(preserved_folios, &folios_info);
[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250807014442.3829950-30-pasha.tatas...@soleen.com
v5 changes:
* rebase on mm-new of September 17
* use kho_restore_pages() in kho_restore_vmalloc(). Required to resolve
a conflict with "kho: make sure page being restored is actually from KHO"
* use more descriptive local variable names in kho_restore_vmalloc()
v4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250917174033.3810435-1-r...@kernel.org
* rebase on mm-stable
* use 'struct kho_vmalloc' as preservation metadata instead of storing it in
the first chunk
* separate KHO flags from VM_ flags
* unreserve vmalloc pages on error
* add checks for under- and overflow of preserved metadata
v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250908103528.2179934-1-r...@kernel.org
* rebase on mm-unstable
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250905131302.3595582-1-r...@kernel.org
* support preservation of vmalloc backed by large pages
* add check for supported vmalloc flags and preserve the flags to be
able to identify incompatible preservations
* don't use kho_preserve_phys()
* add kernel-doc
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250903063018.3346652-1-r...@kernel.org
Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) (4):
kho: check if kho is finalized in __kho_preserve_order()
kho: replace kho_preserve_phys() with kho_preserve_pages()
kho: add support for preserving vmalloc allocations
lib/test_kho: use kho_preserve_vmalloc instead of storing addresses in
fdt
include/linux/kexec_handover.h | 33 ++-
kernel/kexec_handover.c | 361 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
lib/test_kho.c | 41 ++--
mm/memblock.c | 4 +-
4 files changed, 381 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
base-commit: c565f9816932dc8d164bd8c69acf077840565ce7
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