linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 14/17] vdpa_sim: use kvmalloc to allocate vdpasim->buffer

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Message-Id: <20201126144950.92850-15-sgarzare@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 26 Nov 2020 15:49:47 +0100
From:   Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
To:     virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Cc:     Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Laurent Vivier <lvivier@...hat.com>,
        Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@...dia.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Eli Cohen <elic@...dia.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 14/17] vdpa_sim: use kvmalloc to allocate vdpasim->buffer

The next patch will make the buffer size configurable from each
device.
Since the buffer could be larger than a page, we use kvmalloc()
instead of kmalloc().

Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c
index 4327efd6d41e..3bcf622949c8 100644
--- a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c
+++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ static struct vdpasim *vdpasim_create(struct vdpasim_dev_attr *dev_attr)
 	if (!vdpasim->iommu)
 		goto err_iommu;
 
-	vdpasim->buffer = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	vdpasim->buffer = kvmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!vdpasim->buffer)
 		goto err_iommu;
 
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ static void vdpasim_free(struct vdpa_device *vdpa)
 	struct vdpasim *vdpasim = vdpa_to_sim(vdpa);
 
 	cancel_work_sync(&vdpasim->work);
-	kfree(vdpasim->buffer);
+	kvfree(vdpasim->buffer);
 	if (vdpasim->iommu)
 		vhost_iotlb_free(vdpasim->iommu);
 	kfree(vdpasim->vqs);
-- 
2.26.2