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Date:   Fri, 19 May 2023 12:21:58 -0400
From:   Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] mm: intorduce __GFP_UNMAPPED and unmapped_alloc()
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On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 07:14:14PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Unfortunately not because we still need to map the pages in the modules
> area which is essentially a subset of vmalloc address space.

Why wouldn't we be doing that once per 2 MB page?

>  
> > If I have time (hah! big if :) I'll see if I can cook up a patchset that
> > combines our two approaches over the weekend.
> 
> Now there is also an interest about unmapped allocations from KVM folks, so
> I might continue pursuing unmapped allocator, probably just without a new
> GFP flag and hooks into page allocator.

Cool - it does seem like a generally valuable capability :)