From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Hildenbrand Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 14:00:20 +0100 Message-ID: <86cabb7a-1756-4d12-7ba4-776f66f6bb86@redhat.com> References: <20161208103300.23217-1-mhocko@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20161208103300.23217-1-mhocko@kernel.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Michal Hocko , linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Andrew Morton , Vlastimil Babka , David Rientjes , Mel Gorman , Johannes Weiner , Anatoly Stepanov , LKML , Michal Hocko , Paolo Bonzini , Mike Snitzer , dm-devel@redhat.com, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Theodore Ts'o , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-f2fs-devel.lists.sourceforge.net Am 08.12.2016 um 11:33 schrieb Michal Hocko: > From: Michal Hocko > > Using kmalloc with the vmalloc fallback for larger allocations is a > common pattern in the kernel code. Yet we do not have any common helper > for that and so users have invented their own helpers. Some of them are > really creative when doing so. Let's just add kv[mz]alloc and make sure > it is implemented properly. This implementation makes sure to not make > a large memory pressure for > PAGE_SZE requests (__GFP_NORETRY) and also > to not warn about allocation failures. This also rules out the OOM > killer as the vmalloc is a more approapriate fallback than a disruptive > user visible action. > > This patch also changes some existing users and removes helpers which > are specific for them. In some cases this is not possible (e.g. > ext4_kvmalloc, libcfs_kvzalloc, __aa_kvmalloc) because those seems to be > broken and require GFP_NO{FS,IO} context which is not vmalloc compatible > in general (note that the page table allocation is GFP_KERNEL). Those > need to be fixed separately. > > apparmor has already claimed kv[mz]alloc so remove those and use > __aa_kvmalloc instead to prevent from the naming clashes. > > Cc: Paolo Bonzini > Cc: Mike Snitzer > Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com > Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" > Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" > Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org > Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org > Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko I remember yet another similar user in arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c -> kvm_s390_set_skeys() ... keys = kmalloc_array(args->count, sizeof(uint8_t), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN); if (!keys) vmalloc(sizeof(uint8_t) * args->count); ... would kvmalloc_array make sense? (it would even make the code here less error prone and better to read) -- David -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org