netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/6] treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants

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Date:   Mon, 16 Jan 2017 08:33:11 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
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        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded
 variants

On Sat 14-01-17 12:56:32, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
[...]
> Hi Michal,
> 
> I don't see mlx5_vzalloc in the changed list. Any reason why did you skip it?
> 
>  881 static inline void *mlx5_vzalloc(unsigned long size)
>  882 {
>  883         void *rtn;
>  884
>  885         rtn = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
>  886         if (!rtn)
>  887                 rtn = vzalloc(size);
>  888         return rtn;
>  889 }

No reason to skip it, I just didn't see it. I will fold the following in
if you are OK with it
---
diff --git a/include/linux/mlx5/driver.h b/include/linux/mlx5/driver.h
index cdd2bd62f86d..5e6063170e48 100644
--- a/include/linux/mlx5/driver.h
+++ b/include/linux/mlx5/driver.h
@@ -874,12 +874,7 @@ static inline u16 cmdif_rev(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev)
 
 static inline void *mlx5_vzalloc(unsigned long size)
 {
-	void *rtn;
-
-	rtn = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
-	if (!rtn)
-		rtn = vzalloc(size);
-	return rtn;
+	return kvzalloc(GFP_KERNEL, size);
 }
 
 static inline u32 mlx5_base_mkey(const u32 key)

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs