linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vmalloc : optimization, cleanup, bugfixes

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Date:	Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:13:10 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmalloc : optimization, cleanup, bugfixes

Eric Dumazet wrote:
> [PATCH] vmalloc : optimization, cleanup, bugfixes
> 
> This patch does three things
> 
> 1) reorder 'struct vm_struct' to speedup lookups on CPUS with small cache 
> lines. The fields 'next,addr,size' should be now in the same cache line, to 
> speedup lookups.
> 
> 2) One minor cleanup in __get_vm_area_node()
> 
> 3) Bugfixes in vmalloc_user() and vmalloc_32_user()
> NULL returns from __vmalloc() and __find_vm_area() were not tested.

Hmm, so they weren't. As far as testing the return of __find_vm_area,
you can just turn that into a BUG_ON(!area), because at that point,
we've established that the vmalloc succeeded.

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