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mm/vmalloc: skip the uninitilized vmalloc areas
authorBaoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Mon, 6 Feb 2023 08:40:18 +0000 (16:40 +0800)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:51:43 +0000 (16:51 -0800)
commit30a7a9b17c4b0331ec67aadb4b30ff2a951b4ed5
tree8a2210d7965eb95eded6fc8041566c9c8c972bb9
parentbba9697b42ead45687352fdd0fd498735bc4361d
mm/vmalloc: skip the uninitilized vmalloc areas

For areas allocated via vmalloc_xxx() APIs, it searches for unmapped area
to reserve and allocates new pages to map into, please see function
__vmalloc_node_range().  During the process, flag VM_UNINITIALIZED is set
in vm->flags to indicate that the pages allocation and mapping haven't
been done, until clear_vm_uninitialized_flag() is called to clear
VM_UNINITIALIZED.

For this kind of area, if VM_UNINITIALIZED is still set, let's ignore it
in vread() because pages newly allocated and being mapped in that area
only contains zero data.  reading them out by aligned_vread() is wasting
time.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230206084020.174506-6-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmalloc.c