linux-kernel - [PATCH] zram: easy the allocation of zcomp

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Date: Wed,  3 Jan 2024 13:30:11 +1300
From: Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>
To: minchan@...nel.org,
	senozhatsky@...omium.org,
	axboe@...nel.dk
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
	Barry Song <v-songbaohua@...o.com>
Subject: [PATCH] zram: easy the allocation of zcomp_strm's buffers with 2 pages

There is no need to keep zcomp_strm's buffers contiguous physically.
And rarely, 1-order allocation can fail while buddy is seriously
fragmented.

Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@...o.com>
---
 drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
index 55af4efd7983..8237b08c49d8 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/crypto.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 
 #include "zcomp.h"
 
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ static void zcomp_strm_free(struct zcomp_strm *zstrm)
 {
 	if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(zstrm->tfm))
 		crypto_free_comp(zstrm->tfm);
-	free_pages((unsigned long)zstrm->buffer, 1);
+	vfree(zstrm->buffer);
 	zstrm->tfm = NULL;
 	zstrm->buffer = NULL;
 }
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ static int zcomp_strm_init(struct zcomp_strm *zstrm, struct zcomp *comp)
 	 * allocate 2 pages. 1 for compressed data, plus 1 extra for the
 	 * case when compressed size is larger than the original one
 	 */
-	zstrm->buffer = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 1);
+	zstrm->buffer = vzalloc(2 * PAGE_SIZE);
 	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(zstrm->tfm) || !zstrm->buffer) {
 		zcomp_strm_free(zstrm);
 		return -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.34.1