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mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc() 

When using vmalloc with VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP flag, it will set the alignment
to PMD_SIZE internally, if it deems huge mappings to be eligible. 
Therefore, setting the alignment in execmem_vmalloc is redundant.  Apart
from this, it also reduces the probability of allocation in case vmalloc
fails to allocate hugepages - in the fallback case, vmalloc tries to use
the original alignment and allocate basepages, which unfortunately will
again be PMD_SIZE passed over from execmem_vmalloc, thus constraining the
search for a free space in vmalloc region.

Therefore, remove this constraint.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250918093453.75676-1-dev.jain@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Dev Jain 2025-09-18 15:04:53 +05:30 committed by Andrew Morton
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@ -38,9 +38,6 @@ static void *execmem_vmalloc(struct execmem_range *range, size_t size,
if (kasan)
vm_flags |= VM_DEFER_KMEMLEAK;
if (vm_flags & VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP)
align = PMD_SIZE;
p = __vmalloc_node_range(size, align, start, end, gfp_flags,
pgprot, vm_flags, NUMA_NO_NODE,
__builtin_return_address(0));