linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm, swap: Try kzalloc before vzalloc

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Date:   Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:47:33 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@...el.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm, swap: Try kzalloc before vzalloc

On Fri 17-03-17 14:46:22, Huang, Ying wrote:
> +void *swap_kvzalloc(size_t size)
> +{
> +	void *p;
> +
> +	p = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
> +	if (!p)
> +		p = vzalloc(size);
> +
> +	return p;
> +}

please do not invent your own kvmalloc implementation when we already
have on in mmotm tree.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs