linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v15 09/10] arm64: Call kmalloc() to allocate DTB buffer

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Date:   Wed, 27 Jan 2021 09:59:38 -0800
From:   Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@...ux.microsoft.com>
To:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 09/10] arm64: Call kmalloc() to allocate DTB buffer

On 1/27/21 8:52 AM, Will Deacon wrote:

Hi Will,

> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 09:30:16AM -0800, Lakshmi Ramasubramanian wrote:
>> create_dtb() function allocates kernel virtual memory for
>> the device tree blob (DTB).  This is not consistent with other
>> architectures, such as powerpc, which calls kmalloc() for allocating
>> memory for the DTB.
>>
>> Call kmalloc() to allocate memory for the DTB, and kfree() to free
>> the allocated memory.
>>
>> Co-developed-by: Prakhar Srivastava <prsriva@...ux.microsoft.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Prakhar Srivastava <prsriva@...ux.microsoft.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@...ux.microsoft.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 12 +++++++-----
>>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
>> index 7de9c47dee7c..51c40143d6fa 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
>> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ const struct kexec_file_ops * const kexec_file_loaders[] = {
>>   
>>   int arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(struct kimage *image)
>>   {
>> -	vfree(image->arch.dtb);
>> +	kfree(image->arch.dtb);
>>   	image->arch.dtb = NULL;
>>   
>>   	vfree(image->arch.elf_headers);
>> @@ -59,19 +59,21 @@ static int create_dtb(struct kimage *image,
>>   			+ cmdline_len + DTB_EXTRA_SPACE;
>>   
>>   	for (;;) {
>> -		buf = vmalloc(buf_size);
>> +		buf = kmalloc(buf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> Is there a functional need for this patch? I build the 'dtbs' target just
> now and sdm845-db845c.dtb is approaching 100K, which feels quite large
> for kmalloc().

Changing the allocation from vmalloc() to kmalloc() would help us 
further consolidate the DTB setup code for powerpc and arm64.

thanks,
  -lakshmi