On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 04:37:16PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com> > > There are many code paths opencoding kvmalloc. Let's use the helper > instead. The main difference to kvmalloc is that those users are usually > not considering all the aspects of the memory allocator. E.g. allocation > requests < 64kB are basically never failing and invoke OOM killer to > satisfy the allocation. This sounds too disruptive for something that > has a reasonable fallback - the vmalloc. On the other hand those > requests might fallback to vmalloc even when the memory allocator would > succeed after several more reclaim/compaction attempts previously. There > is no guarantee something like that happens though. > > This patch converts many of those places to kv[mz]alloc* helpers because > they are more conservative. > > Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidef...@de.ibm.com> > Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carst...@de.ibm.com> > Cc: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> > Cc: Anton Vorontsov <an...@enomsg.org> > Cc: Colin Cross <ccr...@android.com> > Cc: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> > Cc: Tony Luck <tony.l...@intel.com> > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <r...@rjwysocki.net> > Cc: Ben Skeggs <bske...@redhat.com> > Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstr...@gmail.com> > Cc: Santosh Raspatur <sant...@chelsio.com> > Cc: Hariprasad S <haripra...@chelsio.com> > Cc: Tariq Toukan <tar...@mellanox.com> > Cc: Yishai Hadas <yish...@mellanox.com> > Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> > Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.dro...@intel.com> > Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dil...@intel.com> > Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com> > Cc: David Sterba <dste...@suse.com> > Cc: "Yan, Zheng" <z...@redhat.com> > Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryo...@gmail.com> > Cc: Alexander Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> > Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <a...@kernel.org> > Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com> > --- > arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 10 ++----- > crypto/lzo.c | 4 +-- > drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c | 8 ++--- > drivers/char/agp/generic.c | 8 +---- > drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c | 4 +-- > drivers/md/bcache/util.h | 12 ++------ > drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_defs.h | 3 -- > drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.c | 25 ++-------------- > drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/l2t.c | 2 +- > drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c | 31 ++++---------------- > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c | 9 ++---- > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mr.c | 9 ++---- > drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c | 5 +--- > .../staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-mem.c | 11 +------ > drivers/xen/evtchn.c | 14 +-------- > fs/btrfs/ctree.c | 9 ++---- > fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 9 ++---- > fs/btrfs/send.c | 27 ++++++----------- > fs/ceph/file.c | 9 ++---- > fs/select.c | 5 +--- > fs/xattr.c | 27 ++++++----------- > kernel/bpf/hashtab.c | 11 ++----- > lib/iov_iter.c | 5 +--- > mm/frame_vector.c | 5 +--- > net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c | 6 +--- > net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c | 5 +--- > net/mpls/af_mpls.c | 5 +--- > net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 34 > ++++++---------------- > net/netfilter/xt_recent.c | 5 +--- > net/sched/sch_choke.c | 5 +--- > net/sched/sch_fq_codel.c | 26 ++++------------- > net/sched/sch_hhf.c | 33 ++++++--------------- > net/sched/sch_netem.c | 6 +--- > net/sched/sch_sfq.c | 6 +--- > security/keys/keyctl.c | 22 ++++---------- > 35 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 319 deletions(-)
Hi Michal, I don't see mlx5_vzalloc in the changed list. Any reason why did you skip it? 881 static inline void *mlx5_vzalloc(unsigned long size) 882 { 883 void *rtn; 884 885 rtn = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN); 886 if (!rtn) 887 rtn = vzalloc(size); 888 return rtn; 889 } Thanks
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