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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/vhost/net.c | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/vhost/vsock.c | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 18 |
4 files changed, 24 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c index 9b519897cc17..f61f852d6cfd 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c @@ -817,12 +817,9 @@ static int vhost_net_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *f) struct vhost_virtqueue **vqs; int i; - n = kmalloc(sizeof *n, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_REPEAT); - if (!n) { - n = vmalloc(sizeof *n); - if (!n) - return -ENOMEM; - } + n = kvmalloc(sizeof *n, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT); + if (!n) + return -ENOMEM; vqs = kmalloc(VHOST_NET_VQ_MAX * sizeof(*vqs), GFP_KERNEL); if (!vqs) { kvfree(n); diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c index f0ba362d4c10..042030e5a035 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c @@ -534,18 +534,9 @@ err_mm: } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_dev_set_owner); -static void *vhost_kvzalloc(unsigned long size) -{ - void *n = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_REPEAT); - - if (!n) - n = vzalloc(size); - return n; -} - struct vhost_umem *vhost_dev_reset_owner_prepare(void) { - return vhost_kvzalloc(sizeof(struct vhost_umem)); + return kvzalloc(sizeof(struct vhost_umem), GFP_KERNEL); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_dev_reset_owner_prepare); @@ -1276,7 +1267,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_vq_access_ok); static struct vhost_umem *vhost_umem_alloc(void) { - struct vhost_umem *umem = vhost_kvzalloc(sizeof(*umem)); + struct vhost_umem *umem = kvzalloc(sizeof(*umem), GFP_KERNEL); if (!umem) return NULL; @@ -1302,7 +1293,7 @@ static long vhost_set_memory(struct vhost_dev *d, struct vhost_memory __user *m) return -EOPNOTSUPP; if (mem.nregions > max_mem_regions) return -E2BIG; - newmem = vhost_kvzalloc(size + mem.nregions * sizeof(*m->regions)); + newmem = kvzalloc(size + mem.nregions * sizeof(*m->regions), GFP_KERNEL); if (!newmem) return -ENOMEM; diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c index d939ac1a4997..3acef3c5d8ed 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c @@ -508,12 +508,9 @@ static int vhost_vsock_dev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) /* This struct is large and allocation could fail, fall back to vmalloc * if there is no other way. */ - vsock = kzalloc(sizeof(*vsock), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_REPEAT); - if (!vsock) { - vsock = vmalloc(sizeof(*vsock)); - if (!vsock) - return -ENOMEM; - } + vsock = kvmalloc(sizeof(*vsock), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT); + if (!vsock) + return -ENOMEM; vqs = kmalloc_array(ARRAY_SIZE(vsock->vqs), sizeof(*vqs), GFP_KERNEL); if (!vqs) { diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 10a14a0ac3c2..f4e590b2c0da 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -339,7 +339,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_mmap); * Uses kmalloc to get the memory but if the allocation fails then falls back * to the vmalloc allocator. Use kvfree for freeing the memory. * - * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY, __GFP_REPEAT and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported + * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported. __GFP_REPEAT + * is supported only for large (>32kB) allocations, and it should be used only if + * kmalloc is preferable to the vmalloc fallback, due to visible performance drawbacks. * * Any use of gfp flags outside of GFP_KERNEL should be consulted with mm people. */ @@ -358,8 +360,18 @@ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node) * Make sure that larger requests are not too disruptive - no OOM * killer and no allocation failure warnings as we have a fallback */ - if (size > PAGE_SIZE) - kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN; + if (size > PAGE_SIZE) { + kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NOWARN; + + /* + * We have to override __GFP_REPEAT by __GFP_NORETRY for !costly + * requests because there is no other way to tell the allocator + * that we want to fail rather than retry endlessly. + */ + if (!(kmalloc_flags & __GFP_REPEAT) || + (size <= PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)) + kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NORETRY; + } ret = kmalloc_node(size, kmalloc_flags, node); |