On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 10:17:51AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> +static u64 vmap_info_gen;
> +static u64 vmap_info_cache_gen;

> +void get_vmalloc_info(struct vmalloc_info *vmi)
> +{
> +     u64 gen = READ_ONCE(vmap_info_gen);
> +
> +     /*
> +      * If the generation counter of the cache matches that of
> +      * the vmalloc generation counter then return the cache:
> +      */
> +     if (READ_ONCE(vmap_info_cache_gen) == gen) {

Why are those things u64? It has the obvious down-side that you still
get split loads on 32bit machines.

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