linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] seq_file: convert seq buffer to vmalloc

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Date:	Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:07:12 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] seq_file: convert seq buffer to vmalloc

On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 13:57 -0700, Colin Cross wrote:
> seq_files are often used for debugging.  When things are going wrong
> due to failed physically contiguous allocations, the exponentially
> growing physically contiguous allocations in seq_read can make things
> worse.  There is no need for physically contiguous memory, so switch
> to virtually contiguous memory instead.

vmalloc's are relatively expensive.
Perhaps use kmalloc when appropriate instead?

[]
> -	/* don't ask for more than the kmalloc() max size */
> -	if (size > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
> -		size = KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE;
> -
> -	buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	buf = vmalloc(size);
>  	if (!buf)
>  		return -ENOMEM;

	if (size > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
		buf = vmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL)
	else
		buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
	
> +	vfree(m->buf);

	if (m->size > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
		vfree(m->buf);
	else
		kfree(m->buf);

>  	m->buf = buf;
>  	m->size = size;
>  
> @@ -106,7 +103,7 @@ static int traverse(struct seq_file *m, loff_t offset)
>  		return 0;
>  	}
>  	if (!m->buf) {
> -		m->buf = kmalloc(m->size = PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		m->buf = vmalloc(m->size = PAGE_SIZE);

embedding the set of m->size like this is ugly.

[do the same as above kmalloc/vmalloc based on size]

etc.

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