From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Alasdair G Kergon" , "Mike Snitzer" , "Mikulas Patocka" Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 03:08:43 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: [PATCH 3.2 019/185] dm: allocate buffer for messages with small number of arguments using GFP_NOIO In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.2.54-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mikulas Patocka commit f36afb3957353d2529cb2b00f78fdccd14fc5e9c upstream. dm-mpath and dm-thin must process messages even if some device is suspended, so we allocate argv buffer with GFP_NOIO. These messages have a small fixed number of arguments. On the other hand, dm-switch needs to process bulk data using messages so excessive use of GFP_NOIO could cause trouble. The patch also lowers the default number of arguments from 64 to 8, so that there is smaller load on GFP_NOIO allocations. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/md/dm-table.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/md/dm-table.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-table.c @@ -581,14 +581,28 @@ static int adjoin(struct dm_table *table /* * Used to dynamically allocate the arg array. + * + * We do first allocation with GFP_NOIO because dm-mpath and dm-thin must + * process messages even if some device is suspended. These messages have a + * small fixed number of arguments. + * + * On the other hand, dm-switch needs to process bulk data using messages and + * excessive use of GFP_NOIO could cause trouble. */ static char **realloc_argv(unsigned *array_size, char **old_argv) { char **argv; unsigned new_size; + gfp_t gfp; - new_size = *array_size ? *array_size * 2 : 64; - argv = kmalloc(new_size * sizeof(*argv), GFP_KERNEL); + if (*array_size) { + new_size = *array_size * 2; + gfp = GFP_KERNEL; + } else { + new_size = 8; + gfp = GFP_NOIO; + } + argv = kmalloc(new_size * sizeof(*argv), gfp); if (argv) { memcpy(argv, old_argv, *array_size * sizeof(*argv)); *array_size = new_size;