From:   Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
        stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com, urezki@gmail.com, lstoakes@gmail.com,
        willy@infradead.org, hch@infradead.org, error27@gmail.com,
        Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 5/7] mm/vmalloc: skip the uninitilized vmalloc areas
Date:   Wed,  1 Feb 2023 17:13:37 +0800
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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.

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
---
 mm/vmalloc.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index e515dbacb0cb..504b63606613 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -3667,6 +3667,11 @@ long vread(char *buf, char *addr, unsigned long count)
 		if (!vm && !flags)
 			continue;
 
+		if (vm && (vm->flags & VM_UNINITIALIZED))
+			continue;
+		/* Pair with smp_wmb() in clear_vm_uninitialized_flag() */
+		smp_rmb();
+
 		vaddr = (char *) va->va_start;
 		size = vm ? get_vm_area_size(vm) : va_size(va);
 
-- 
2.34.1