linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: libcxgbi: use kvzalloc instead of opencoded kzalloc/vzalloc

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Message-ID: <70fb8220-2102-adb5-bbe6-9c2ea74a0623@linux.com>
Date:   Sat, 1 Aug 2020 01:10:19 +0300
From:   Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: libcxgbi: use kvzalloc instead of opencoded
 kzalloc/vzalloc



On 8/1/20 12:58 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-08-01 at 00:55 +0300, Denis Efremov wrote:
>> Remove cxgbi_alloc_big_mem(), cxgbi_free_big_mem() functions
>> and use kvzalloc/kvfree instead.
> 
> Sensible, thanks.
> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/libcxgbi.c b/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/libcxgbi.c
> []
>> @@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ int cxgbi_device_portmap_create(struct cxgbi_device *cdev, unsigned int base,
>>  {
>>  	struct cxgbi_ports_map *pmap = &cdev->pmap;
>>  
>> -	pmap->port_csk = cxgbi_alloc_big_mem(max_conn *
>> -					     sizeof(struct cxgbi_sock *),
>> -					     GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	pmap->port_csk = kvzalloc(array_size(max_conn,
>> +					     sizeof(struct cxgbi_sock *)),
>> +				  GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> missing __GFP_NOWARN
> 

kvmalloc_node adds __GFP_NOWARN internally to kmalloc call
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.8-rc4/source/mm/util.c#L568

Thanks,
Denis