linux-kernel - [PATCH] IPoIB: use kvzalloc to allocate an array of bucket pointers

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Message-Id: <1531144263-24717-1-git-send-email-jan.dakinevich@virtuozzo.com>
Date:   Mon,  9 Jul 2018 16:51:03 +0300
From:   Jan Dakinevich <jan.dakinevich@...tuozzo.com>
To:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Yuval Shaia <yuval.shaia@...cle.com>,
        Alex Vesker <valex@...lanox.com>,
        Erez Shitrit <erezsh@...lanox.com>,
        Feras Daoud <ferasda@...lanox.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Evgenii Smirnov <evgenii.smirnov@...fitbricks.com>,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Denis Lunev <den@...tuozzo.com>,
        Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@...tuozzo.com>,
        Jan Dakinevich <jan.dakinevich@...tuozzo.com>
Subject: [PATCH] IPoIB: use kvzalloc to allocate an array of bucket pointers

This table by default takes 32KiB which is 3rd memory order. Meanwhile,
this memory is not aimed for DMA operation and could be safely allocated
by vmalloc.

Signed-off-by: Jan Dakinevich <jan.dakinevich@...tuozzo.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
index 26cde95..cb752df 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
@@ -1526,7 +1526,7 @@ static int ipoib_neigh_hash_init(struct ipoib_dev_priv *priv)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	set_bit(IPOIB_STOP_NEIGH_GC, &priv->flags);
 	size = roundup_pow_of_two(arp_tbl.gc_thresh3);
-	buckets = kcalloc(size, sizeof(*buckets), GFP_KERNEL);
+	buckets = kvcalloc(size, sizeof(*buckets), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!buckets) {
 		kfree(htbl);
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1554,7 +1554,7 @@ static void neigh_hash_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
 	struct ipoib_neigh __rcu **buckets = htbl->buckets;
 	struct ipoib_neigh_table *ntbl = htbl->ntbl;
 
-	kfree(buckets);
+	kvfree(buckets);
 	kfree(htbl);
 	complete(&ntbl->deleted);
 }
-- 
2.1.4