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Ryan Roberts
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A call to vmalloc_huge() may cause memory blocks to be mapped at pmd or pud level. But it is possible to subsequently call vunmap_range() on a sub-range of the mapped memory, which partially overlaps a pmd or pud. In this case, vmalloc unmaps the entire pmd or pud so that the no-overlapping portion is also unmapped. Clearly that would have a bad outcome, but it's not something that any callers do today as far as I can tell. So I guess it's just expected that callers will not do this. However, it would be useful to know if this happened in future; let's add a warning to cover the eventuality. Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Tested-by: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250422081822.1836315-8-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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