mm, vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly

__vmalloc* allows users to provide gfp flags for the underlying
allocation. This API is quite popular
$ git grep "=[[:space:]]__vmalloc\|return[[:space:]]*__vmalloc" | wc -l
77

The only problem is that many people are not aware that they really want
to give __GFP_HIGHMEM along with other flags because there is really no
reason to consume precious lowmemory on CONFIG_HIGHMEM systems for pages
which are mapped to the kernel vmalloc space.  About half of users don't
use this flag, though.  This signals that we make the API unnecessarily
too complex.

This patch simply uses __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly when allocating pages to
be mapped to the vmalloc space.  Current users which add __GFP_HIGHMEM are
simplified and drop the flag.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170307141020.29107-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Cristopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

5 files changed, 7 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/core.c b/kernel/bpf/core.c
index f45827e205d3..33b7861b517c 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/core.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/core.c
@@ -76,8 +76,7 @@ void *bpf_internal_load_pointer_neg_helper(const struct sk_buff *skb, int k, uns
 
 struct bpf_prog *bpf_prog_alloc(unsigned int size, gfp_t gfp_extra_flags)
 {
-	gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO |
-			  gfp_extra_flags;
+	gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | gfp_extra_flags;
 	struct bpf_prog_aux *aux;
 	struct bpf_prog *fp;
 
@@ -107,8 +106,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bpf_prog_alloc);
 struct bpf_prog *bpf_prog_realloc(struct bpf_prog *fp_old, unsigned int size,
 				  gfp_t gfp_extra_flags)
 {
-	gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO |
-			  gfp_extra_flags;
+	gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | gfp_extra_flags;
 	struct bpf_prog *fp;
 	u32 pages, delta;
 	int ret;
@@ -659,8 +657,7 @@ out:
 static struct bpf_prog *bpf_prog_clone_create(struct bpf_prog *fp_other,
 					      gfp_t gfp_extra_flags)
 {
-	gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO |
-			  gfp_extra_flags;
+	gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | gfp_extra_flags;
 	struct bpf_prog *fp;
 
 	fp = __vmalloc(fp_other->pages * PAGE_SIZE, gfp_flags, PAGE_KERNEL);
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
index 48c914b983bd..719aec18c2cb 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
@@ -68,8 +68,7 @@ void *bpf_map_area_alloc(size_t size)
 			return area;
 	}
 
-	return __vmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | flags,
-			 PAGE_KERNEL);
+	return __vmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | flags, PAGE_KERNEL);
 }
 
 void bpf_map_area_free(void *area)
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index bef47e83925d..e79fa7ce32c9 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node)
 
 	stack = __vmalloc_node_range(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE,
 				     VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END,
-				     THREADINFO_GFP | __GFP_HIGHMEM,
+				     THREADINFO_GFP,
 				     PAGE_KERNEL,
 				     0, node, __builtin_return_address(0));
 
diff --git a/kernel/groups.c b/kernel/groups.c
index 8dd7a61b7115..d09727692a2a 100644
--- a/kernel/groups.c
+++ b/kernel/groups.c
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ struct group_info *groups_alloc(int gidsetsize)
 	len = sizeof(struct group_info) + sizeof(kgid_t) * gidsetsize;
 	gi = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY);
 	if (!gi)
-		gi = __vmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_HIGHMEM, PAGE_KERNEL);
+		gi = __vmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT, PAGE_KERNEL);
 	if (!gi)
 		return NULL;
 
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index eae37b81ca4f..f7aeef8d6681 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2860,7 +2860,7 @@ static int copy_module_from_user(const void __user *umod, unsigned long len,
 
 	/* Suck in entire file: we'll want most of it. */
 	info->hdr = __vmalloc(info->len,
-			GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_NOWARN, PAGE_KERNEL);
+			GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN, PAGE_KERNEL);
 	if (!info->hdr)
 		return -ENOMEM;