[PATCH 1/2] mm/vmalloc: Introduce vmap_file()

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Fri Jan 31 07:09:13 UTC 2025


On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 04:18:05PM -0800, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
> +	rcu_read_lock();
> +	xas_for_each(&xas, folio, last) {

This only maps folios currently in the page cache, which makes it
usefull for everything except ramfs-style purely in-memory file systems.
I.e. for the shmem use case in the second patch it fails to swap in
swapped out tmpfs folios.

> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmap_file);

EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for any advances vmalloc-layer functionality, please.



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