Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] arm64: Silence first allocation with CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS=y

From: Will Deacon
Date: Mon May 08 2017 - 06:07:24 EST


On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 02:07:28PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 05/03/2017 04:18 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 11:19:02AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> >> When CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS is enabled, the first allocation using the
> >> module space fails, because the module is too big, and then the module
> >> allocation is attempted from vmalloc space. Silence the first allocation
> >> failure in that case by setting __GFP_NOWARN.
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> arch/arm64/kernel/module.c | 7 ++++++-
> >> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > I'm not sure what the merge plan is for these, but the arm64 bit here
> > looks fine to me:
> >
> > Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks, not sure either, would you or Catalin want to pick this series?

We'd need an Ack from Russell on the arch/arm/ part before we could take
this series.

Will