From 752ade68cbd81d0321dfecc188f655a945551b25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Hocko Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 15:57:27 -0700 Subject: treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants 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 <= 32kB (with 4kB pages) 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. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-2-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky # Xen bits Acked-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Andreas Dilger # Lustre Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger # KVM/s390 Acked-by: Dan Williams # nvdim Acked-by: David Sterba # btrfs Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov # Ceph Acked-by: Tariq Toukan # mlx4 Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky # mlx5 Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Herbert Xu Cc: Anton Vorontsov Cc: Colin Cross Cc: Tony Luck Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Ben Skeggs Cc: Kent Overstreet Cc: Santosh Raspatur Cc: Hariprasad S Cc: Yishai Hadas Cc: Oleg Drokin Cc: "Yan, Zheng" Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: David Miller Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/frame_vector.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/frame_vector.c b/mm/frame_vector.c index db77dcb38afd..72ebec18629c 100644 --- a/mm/frame_vector.c +++ b/mm/frame_vector.c @@ -200,10 +200,7 @@ struct frame_vector *frame_vector_create(unsigned int nr_frames) * Avoid higher order allocations, use vmalloc instead. It should * be rare anyway. */ - if (size <= PAGE_SIZE) - vec = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); - else - vec = vmalloc(size); + vec = kvmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!vec) return NULL; vec->nr_allocated = nr_frames; -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151