linux-kernel - [PATCH 11/14] staging: lustre: cfs_percpt_alloc: use kvmalloc(GFP

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Date:   Tue, 09 Jan 2018 12:19:38 +1100
From:   NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
To:     Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
        Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
        James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        lustre <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>
Subject: [PATCH 11/14] staging: lustre: cfs_percpt_alloc: use
 kvmalloc(GFP_KERNEL)

this allocation is called from several places, but all are
during initialization, so GFP_NOFS is not needed.
So use kvmalloc and GFP_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
---
 drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/libcfs_mem.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/libcfs_mem.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/libcfs_mem.c
index 23734cfb5d44..8e2b4f1db0a1 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/libcfs_mem.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/libcfs_mem.c
@@ -54,8 +54,7 @@ cfs_percpt_free(void *vars)
 			LIBCFS_FREE(arr->va_ptrs[i], arr->va_size);
 	}
 
-	LIBCFS_FREE(arr, offsetof(struct cfs_var_array,
-				  va_ptrs[arr->va_count]));
+	kvfree(arr);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfs_percpt_free);
 
@@ -79,7 +78,8 @@ cfs_percpt_alloc(struct cfs_cpt_table *cptab, unsigned int size)
 
 	count = cfs_cpt_number(cptab);
 
-	LIBCFS_ALLOC(arr, offsetof(struct cfs_var_array, va_ptrs[count]));
+	arr = kvzalloc(offsetof(struct cfs_var_array, va_ptrs[count]),
+		       GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!arr)
 		return NULL;