[098/105] Squashfs: Use vmalloc rather than kmalloc for zlib workspace

Greg KH
2011-04-12T14:41:05Z

From: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>

commit 117a91e0f25fd7698e20ac3dfa62086be3dc82a3 upstream.

Bugzilla bug 31422 reports occasional "page allocation failure. order:4"
at Squashfs mount time. Fix this by making zlib workspace allocation
use vmalloc rather than kmalloc.

Reported-by: Mehmet Giritli <mehmet@giritli.eu>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
fs/squashfs/zlib_wrapper.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/squashfs/zlib_wrapper.c
+++ b/fs/squashfs/zlib_wrapper.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include <linux/buffer_head.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/zlib.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>

#include "squashfs_fs.h"
#include "squashfs_fs_sb.h"
@@ -37,8 +38,7 @@ static void *zlib_init(struct squashfs_s
z_stream *stream = kmalloc(sizeof(z_stream), GFP_KERNEL);
if (stream == NULL)
goto failed;
- stream->workspace = kmalloc(zlib_inflate_workspacesize(),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ stream->workspace = vmalloc(zlib_inflate_workspacesize());
if (stream->workspace == NULL)
goto failed;

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static void zlib_free(void *strm)
z_stream *stream = strm;

if (stream)
- kfree(stream->workspace);
+ vfree(stream->workspace);
kfree(stream);
}