linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 043/193] dm: allocate struct mapped

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Message-Id: <20171128100615.408163676@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 28 Nov 2017 11:24:50 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 043/193] dm: allocate struct mapped_device with kvzalloc

4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>

commit 856eb0916d181da6d043cc33e03f54d5c5bbe54a upstream.

The structure srcu_struct can be very big, its size is proportional to the
value CONFIG_NR_CPUS. The Fedora kernel has CONFIG_NR_CPUS 8192, the field
io_barrier in the struct mapped_device has 84kB in the debugging kernel
and 50kB in the non-debugging kernel. The large size may result in failure
of the function kzalloc_node.

In order to avoid the allocation failure, we use the function
kvzalloc_node, this function falls back to vmalloc if a large contiguous
chunk of memory is not available. This patch also moves the field
io_barrier to the last position of struct mapped_device - the reason is
that on many processor architectures, short memory offsets result in
smaller code than long memory offsets - on x86-64 it reduces code size by
320 bytes.

Note to stable kernel maintainers - the kernels 4.11 and older don't have
the function kvzalloc_node, you can use the function vzalloc_node instead.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/md/dm-core.h |    3 ++-
 drivers/md/dm.c      |    6 +++---
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-core.h
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-core.h
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ struct dm_kobject_holder {
  * DM targets must _not_ deference a mapped_device to directly access its members!
  */
 struct mapped_device {
-	struct srcu_struct io_barrier;
 	struct mutex suspend_lock;

 	/*
@@ -127,6 +126,8 @@ struct mapped_device {
 	struct blk_mq_tag_set *tag_set;
 	bool use_blk_mq:1;
 	bool init_tio_pdu:1;
+
+	struct srcu_struct io_barrier;
 };

 void dm_init_md_queue(struct mapped_device *md);
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -1695,7 +1695,7 @@ static struct mapped_device *alloc_dev(i
 	struct mapped_device *md;
 	void *old_md;

-	md = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*md), GFP_KERNEL, numa_node_id);
+	md = kvzalloc_node(sizeof(*md), GFP_KERNEL, numa_node_id);
 	if (!md) {
 		DMWARN("unable to allocate device, out of memory.");
 		return NULL;
@@ -1795,7 +1795,7 @@ bad_io_barrier:
 bad_minor:
 	module_put(THIS_MODULE);
 bad_module_get:
-	kfree(md);
+	kvfree(md);
 	return NULL;
 }

@@ -1814,7 +1814,7 @@ static void free_dev(struct mapped_devic
 	free_minor(minor);

 	module_put(THIS_MODULE);
-	kfree(md);
+	kvfree(md);
 }

 static void __bind_mempools(struct mapped_device *md, struct dm_table *t)