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Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:06:18 +0300
From:	Stefan Strogin <s.strogin@...tner.samsung.com>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>,
	aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
	Dmitry Safonov <d.safonov@...tner.samsung.com>,
	Pintu Kumar <pintu.k@...sung.com>,
	Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@...sung.com>,
	Laura Abbott <lauraa@...eaurora.org>,
	SeongJae Park <sj38.park@...il.com>,
	Hui Zhu <zhuhui@...omi.com>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Dyasly Sergey <s.dyasly@...sung.com>,
	Vyacheslav Tyrtov <v.tyrtov@...sung.com>,
	gregory.0xf0@...il.com, sasha.levin@...cle.com, gioh.kim@....com,
	pavel@....cz, stefan.strogin@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm: cma: add currently allocated CMA buffers list to
 debugfs

Hello

On 13/02/15 06:16, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 01:15:41AM +0300, Stefan Strogin wrote:
>>  static int cma_debugfs_get(void *data, u64 *val)
>>  {
>>  	unsigned long *p = data;
>> @@ -125,6 +221,52 @@ static int cma_alloc_write(void *data, u64 val)
>>  
>>  DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE(cma_alloc_fops, NULL, cma_alloc_write, "%llu\n");
>>  
>> +static int cma_buffers_read(struct file *file, char __user *userbuf,
>> +				size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
>> +{
>> +	struct cma *cma = file->private_data;
>> +	struct cma_buffer *cmabuf;
>> +	struct stack_trace trace;
>> +	char *buf;
>> +	int ret, n = 0;
>> +
>> +	if (*ppos < 0 || !count)
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>> +
>> +	buf = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	if (!buf)
>> +		return -ENOMEM;
> 
> Is count limited within proper size boundary for kmalloc()?
> If it can exceed page size, using vmalloc() is better than this.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

You are right. On my systems it is always much bigger than page size.
Thanks.
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