From: Emerson Busson <emersonbusson@gmail.com>
To: mhklinux@outlook.com
Cc: kys@microsoft.com, haiyangz@microsoft.com, wei.liu@kernel.org,
decui@microsoft.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, davem@davemloft.net,
edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 14/14] hv: netvsc: use kvzalloc for device state
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 16:07:52 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261007190752.336426-15-emersonbusson@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261007190752.336426-1-emersonbusson@gmail.com>
alloc_net_device() allocates the fixed-channel netvsc_device with
kzalloc_obj(). The runtime fragmentation drill reaches this allocation
from netvsc_device_add(): windows-2025 reports an order-7 allocation
failure with about 99 MiB free, while windows-latest stalls at channel
open until the guest timeout.
This object is guest-private control-plane metadata, not DMA backing.
Use kvzalloc_obj() so the allocation can fall back to vmalloc when a
high-order kmalloc cannot be satisfied. Zero initialization is preserved.
The RCU workqueue cleanup uses kvfree() to release either backing.
Rollback trigger: revert if channel setup fails with vmalloc capacity
available or teardown leaves netvsc_device allocations outstanding.
Signed-off-by: Emerson Busson <emersonbusson@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
index 0d017f836b9e..8ea7c993baac 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static void __free_netvsc_device(struct netvsc_device *nvdev)
vfree(nvdev->chan_table[i].mrc.slots);
}
- kfree(nvdev);
+ kvfree(nvdev);
}
static void free_netvsc_device(struct work_struct *w)
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ static struct netvsc_device *alloc_net_device(void)
{
struct netvsc_device *net_device;
- net_device = kzalloc_obj(struct netvsc_device);
+ net_device = kvzalloc_obj(struct netvsc_device);
if (!net_device)
return NULL;
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-07 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-07 19:07 [PATCH v2 0/14] hv: vmbus: make rings and host-visible buffers survive buddy fragmentation Emerson Busson
2026-10-07 19:07 ` [PATCH v2 01/14] hv: vmbus: convert ring backing through the chunk allocator Emerson Busson
2026-10-07 19:07 ` [PATCH v2 02/14] hv: vmbus: validate chunk buffer allocation and cleanup Emerson Busson
2026-10-08 21:17 ` kernel test robot
2026-10-07 19:07 ` [PATCH v2 03/14] uio: hv_generic: describe buffers for owned allocation Emerson Busson
2026-10-07 19:07 ` [PATCH v2 04/14] hv: vmbus: add KUnit tests for GPADL post failure injection Emerson Busson
2026-10-07 19:07 ` [PATCH v2 05/14] hv: vmbus: add KUnit test for order-zero allocation fallback Emerson Busson
2026-10-07 19:07 ` [PATCH v2 06/14] hv: vmbus: cover all shared-page policy combinations Emerson Busson
2026-10-07 19:07 ` [PATCH v2 07/14] hv: vmbus: distinguish host rescind from local channel unload Emerson Busson
2026-10-07 19:07 ` [PATCH v2 08/14] hv: vmbus: retain backing until ownership and references clear Emerson Busson
2026-10-08 19:09 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-07 19:07 ` [PATCH v2 09/14] hv: use owned VMBus buffers in NetVSC and UIO Emerson Busson
2026-10-08 19:09 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-07 19:07 ` [PATCH v2 10/14] hv: vmbus: pin buffer pages across UIO mmap to close the reclaim race Emerson Busson
2026-10-08 16:49 ` kernel test robot
2026-10-08 17:51 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-10-08 17:02 ` kernel test robot
2026-10-08 19:09 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-07 19:07 ` [PATCH v2 11/14] hv: vmbus: vmalloc requestor metadata Emerson Busson
2026-10-08 19:09 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-07 19:07 ` [PATCH v2 12/14] hv: netvsc: allocate RNDIS request descriptors with kvzalloc_obj() Emerson Busson
2026-10-08 19:09 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-07 19:07 ` [PATCH v2 13/14] hv: netvsc: handle a NULL request address on empty completions Emerson Busson
2026-10-08 19:09 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-07 19:07 ` Emerson Busson [this message]
2026-10-08 19:09 ` [PATCH v2 14/14] hv: netvsc: use kvzalloc for device state sashiko-bot
2026-10-08 16:55 ` [PATCH v2 0/14] hv: vmbus: make rings and host-visible buffers survive buddy fragmentation Easwar Hariharan
2026-10-13 17:52 ` Michael Kelley
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