linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xen/blkfront: limit allocated memory size to actual use case

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Date:   Fri, 17 Jan 2020 16:13:24 +0100
From:   Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@...rix.com>
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
CC:     <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>, <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/blkfront: limit allocated memory size to actual use
 case

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 03:39:55PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Today the Xen blkfront driver allocates memory for one struct
> blkfront_ring_info for each communication ring. This structure is
> statically sized for the maximum supported configuration resulting
> in a size of more than 90 kB.
> 
> As the main size contributor is one array inside the struct, the
> memory allocation can easily be limited by moving this array to be
> the last structure element and to allocate only the memory for the
> actually needed array size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>

Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@...rix.com>

Thanks! It would be nice to backport this, but I'm not sure it would
qualify as a bug fix.

Roger.