linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tree wide: Use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree()

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Message-ID: <20151108053044.GA540@swordfish>
Date:	Sun, 8 Nov 2015 14:30:44 +0900
From:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc:	andy.shevchenko@...il.com, julia@...u.dk, joe@...ches.com,
	mhocko@...nel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tree wide: Use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree()

On (11/08/15 14:04), Tetsuo Handa wrote:
[..]
> Also, we might want to add a helper that does vmalloc() when
> kmalloc() failed because locations that do
> 
>   ptr = kmalloc(size, GFP_NOFS);
>   if (!ptr)
>       ptr = vmalloc(size); /* Wrong because GFP_KERNEL is used implicitly */
> 
> are found.


ext4 does something like that.


void *ext4_kvmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
{
	void *ret;

	ret = kmalloc(size, flags | __GFP_NOWARN);
	if (!ret)
		ret = __vmalloc(size, flags, PAGE_KERNEL);
	return ret;
}

	-ss
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