linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/virtio: use kvmalloc for large allocations

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Date:   Thu, 5 Nov 2020 12:34:25 +0100
From:   Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@...gle.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/virtio: use kvmalloc for large allocations

On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 04:00:54PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On (20/11/05 07:52), Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > -	*ents = kmalloc_array(*nents, sizeof(struct virtio_gpu_mem_entry),
> > > -			      GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +	*ents = kvmalloc_array(*nents,
> > > +			       sizeof(struct virtio_gpu_mem_entry),
> > > +			       GFP_KERNEL);
> > 
> > Shouldn't that be balanced with a kvfree() elsewhere?
> 
> I think it already is. ents pointer is assigned to vbuf->data_buf,
> and free_vbuf() already uses kvfree(vbuf->data_buf) to free it.

Ah, right, we needed that before elsewhere.
Ok then, pushed to drm-misc-next.

thanks,
  Gerd