[PATCH RFC 08/12] vdpa_sim: use kvmalloc to allocate vdpasim->buffer

Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-13T13:48:50Z

The next patch will make the buffer size configurable from each
device.
Since the buffer could be larger than a page, we use kvmalloc()
instead of kmalloc().

Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
---
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c
index 9c29c2013661..bd034fbf4683 100644
--- a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c
+++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ struct vdpasim *vdpasim_create(struct vdpasim_init_attr *attr)
if (!vdpasim->iommu)
goto err_iommu;

- vdpasim->buffer = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+ vdpasim->buffer = kvmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!vdpasim->buffer)
goto err_iommu;

@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ static void vdpasim_free(struct vdpa_device *vdpa)
struct vdpasim *vdpasim = vdpa_to_sim(vdpa);

cancel_work_sync(&vdpasim->work);
- kfree(vdpasim->buffer);
+ kvfree(vdpasim->buffer);
if (vdpasim->iommu)
vhost_iotlb_free(vdpasim->iommu);
kfree(vdpasim->vqs);
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