Yisheng Xie <[email protected]> writes: > When ioremap a 67112960 bytes vm_area with the vmallocinfo: > [..] > 0xec79b000-0xec7fa000 389120 ftl_add_mtd+0x4d0/0x754 pages=94 vmalloc > 0xec800000-0xecbe1000 4067328 kbox_proc_mem_write+0x104/0x1c4 phys=8b520000 > ioremap > > we get the result: > 0xf1000000-0xf5001000 67112960 devm_ioremap+0x38/0x7c phys=40000000 ioremap > > For the align for ioremap must be less than '1 << IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER': > if (flags & VM_IOREMAP) > align = 1ul << clamp_t(int, get_count_order_long(size), > PAGE_SHIFT, IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER); > > So it makes idiot like me a litter puzzle why jump the vm_area from > 0xec800000-0xecbe1000 to 0xf1000000-0xf5001000, and leave > 0xed000000-0xf1000000 as a big hole. > > This is to show all of vm_area, including which is freeing but still in > vmap_area_list, to make it more clear about why we will get > 0xf1000000-0xf5001000 int the above case. And we will get the > vmallocinfo like: > [..] > 0xec79b000-0xec7fa000 389120 ftl_add_mtd+0x4d0/0x754 pages=94 vmalloc > 0xec800000-0xecbe1000 4067328 kbox_proc_mem_write+0x104/0x1c4 phys=8b520000 > ioremap > [..] > 0xece7c000-0xece7e000 8192 unpurged vm_area > 0xece7e000-0xece83000 20480 vm_map_ram > 0xf0099000-0xf00aa000 69632 vm_map_ram
My vmallocinfo is full of these unpurged areas, should I be worried? # grep -c "unpurged" /proc/vmallocinfo 311 cheers
