linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] zram/zcomp: use GFP

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Message-ID: <20151124071046.GD7708@blaptop>
Date:	Tue, 24 Nov 2015 16:10:46 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Kyeongdon Kim <kyeongdon.kim@....com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] zram/zcomp: use GFP_NOIO to allocate streams

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 03:00:37PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> [..]
> >  static struct zcomp_strm *zcomp_strm_alloc(struct zcomp *comp)
> >  {
> > -       struct zcomp_strm *zstrm = kmalloc(sizeof(*zstrm), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +       struct zcomp_strm *zstrm = kmalloc(sizeof(*zstrm), GFP_NOIO);
> >         if (!zstrm)
> >                 return NULL;
> > 
> > @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static struct zcomp_strm *zcomp_strm_alloc(struct zcomp *comp)
> >          * allocate 2 pages. 1 for compressed data, plus 1 extra for the
> >          * case when compressed size is larger than the original one
> >          */
> > -       zstrm->buffer = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 1);
> > +       zstrm->buffer = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_NOIO | __GFP_ZERO, 1);
> >         if (!zstrm->private || !zstrm->buffer) {
> >                 zcomp_strm_free(comp, zstrm);
> >                 zstrm = NULL;
> 
> hm... this is not enough.
> we allocate
> 
> 	stream GFP_NOIO
> 	stream private GFP_KERNEL    <<<< still old flags
> 	stream buffer
> 
> so my patch was something like this:

Oops, I missed that. Sorry.
I will include it in next spin.

Thanks!
-- 
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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