Re: [PATCH] mm/page_owner: use vmalloc instead of kmalloc

Joe Perches
2018-10-25T18:44:44Z

On Fri, 2018-10-26 at 02:34 +0800, miles.chen@mediatek.com wrote:
> From: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
>
> The kbuf used by page owner is allocated by kmalloc(),
> which means it can use only normal memory and there might
> be a "out of memory" issue when we're out of normal memory.
>
> Use vmalloc() so we can also allocate kbuf from highmem
> on 32bit kernel.

If this is really necessary, using kvmalloc/kvfree would
be better as the vmalloc space is also limited.

> diff --git a/mm/page_owner.c b/mm/page_owner.c
[]
> @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
> // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> #include <linux/debugfs.h>
> #include <linux/mm.h>
> -#include <linux/slab.h>
> #include <linux/uaccess.h>
> #include <linux/bootmem.h>
> #include <linux/stacktrace.h>
> @@ -10,6 +9,7 @@
> #include <linux/migrate.h>
> #include <linux/stackdepot.h>
> #include <linux/seq_file.h>
> +#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
>
> #include "internal.h"
>
> @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ print_page_owner(char __user *buf, size_t count, unsigned long pfn,
> .skip = 0
> };
>
> - kbuf = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
> + kbuf = vmalloc(count);
> if (!kbuf)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> @@ -397,11 +397,11 @@ print_page_owner(char __user *buf, size_t count, unsigned long pfn,
> if (copy_to_user(buf, kbuf, ret))
> ret = -EFAULT;
>
> - kfree(kbuf);
> + vfree(kbuf);
> return ret;
>
> err:
> - kfree(kbuf);
> + vfree(kbuf);
> return -ENOMEM;
> }
>