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* [RFC PATCH] mm/zsmalloc: allocate exactly size of struct zs_pool
@ 2014-11-29 11:23 Ganesh Mahendran
  2014-12-01  0:29 ` Minchan Kim
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ganesh Mahendran @ 2014-11-29 11:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: minchan, ngupta, ddstreet; +Cc: akpm, linux-mm, linux-kernel, Ganesh Mahendran

In zs_create_pool(), we allocate memory more then sizeof(struct zs_pool)
  ovhd_size = roundup(sizeof(*pool), PAGE_SIZE);

This patch allocate memory of exactly needed size.

Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com>
---
 mm/zsmalloc.c |    5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/zsmalloc.c b/mm/zsmalloc.c
index 2021df5..4d0a063 100644
--- a/mm/zsmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/zsmalloc.c
@@ -979,12 +979,11 @@ static bool can_merge(struct size_class *prev, int size, int pages_per_zspage)
  */
 struct zs_pool *zs_create_pool(gfp_t flags)
 {
-	int i, ovhd_size;
+	int i;
 	struct zs_pool *pool;
 	struct size_class *prev_class = NULL;
 
-	ovhd_size = roundup(sizeof(*pool), PAGE_SIZE);
-	pool = kzalloc(ovhd_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	pool = kzalloc(sizeof(*pool), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!pool)
 		return NULL;
 
-- 
1.7.9.5


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* Re: [RFC PATCH] mm/zsmalloc: allocate exactly size of struct zs_pool
  2014-11-29 11:23 [RFC PATCH] mm/zsmalloc: allocate exactly size of struct zs_pool Ganesh Mahendran
@ 2014-12-01  0:29 ` Minchan Kim
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Minchan Kim @ 2014-12-01  0:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ganesh Mahendran; +Cc: ngupta, ddstreet, akpm, linux-mm, linux-kernel

On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 07:23:55PM +0800, Ganesh Mahendran wrote:
> In zs_create_pool(), we allocate memory more then sizeof(struct zs_pool)
>   ovhd_size = roundup(sizeof(*pool), PAGE_SIZE);
> 
> This patch allocate memory of exactly needed size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

-- 
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim

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