mm/vmalloc: skip the uninitilized vmalloc areas
For areas allocated via vmalloc_xxx() APIs, it searches for unmapped area to reserve and allocates new pages to map into, please see function __vmalloc_node_range(). During the process, flag VM_UNINITIALIZED is set in vm->flags to indicate that the pages allocation and mapping haven't been done, until clear_vm_uninitialized_flag() is called to clear VM_UNINITIALIZED. For this kind of area, if VM_UNINITIALIZED is still set, let's ignore it in vread() because pages newly allocated and being mapped in that area only contains zero data. reading them out by aligned_vread() is wasting time. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230206084020.174506-6-bhe@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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