linux-kernel - [PATCH 8/9] bcache: use kvmalloc

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Date:   Mon, 30 Jan 2017 10:49:39 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 8/9] bcache: use kvmalloc

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

bcache_device_init uses kmalloc for small requests and vmalloc for those
which are larger than 64 pages. This alone is a strange criterion.
Moreover kmalloc can fallback to vmalloc on the failure. Let's simply
use kvmalloc instead as it knows how to handle the fallback properly

Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
---
 drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
index 3a19cbc8b230..4cb6b88a1465 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
@@ -767,16 +767,12 @@ static int bcache_device_init(struct bcache_device *d, unsigned block_size,
 	}
 
 	n = d->nr_stripes * sizeof(atomic_t);
-	d->stripe_sectors_dirty = n < PAGE_SIZE << 6
-		? kzalloc(n, GFP_KERNEL)
-		: vzalloc(n);
+	d->stripe_sectors_dirty = kvzalloc(n, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!d->stripe_sectors_dirty)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	n = BITS_TO_LONGS(d->nr_stripes) * sizeof(unsigned long);
-	d->full_dirty_stripes = n < PAGE_SIZE << 6
-		? kzalloc(n, GFP_KERNEL)
-		: vzalloc(n);
+	d->full_dirty_stripes = kvzalloc(n, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!d->full_dirty_stripes)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.11.0