dm: allocate struct mapped_device with kvzalloc
The structure srcu_struct can be very big, its size is proportional to the
value CONFIG_NR_CPUS. The Fedora kernel has CONFIG_NR_CPUS 8192, the field
io_barrier in the struct mapped_device has 84kB in the debugging kernel
and 50kB in the non-debugging kernel. The large size may result in failure
of the function kzalloc_node.
In order to avoid the allocation failure, we use the function
kvzalloc_node, this function falls back to vmalloc if a large contiguous
chunk of memory is not available. This patch also moves the field
io_barrier to the last position of struct mapped_device - the reason is
that on many processor architectures, short memory offsets result in
smaller code than long memory offsets - on x86-64 it reduces code size by
320 bytes.
Note to stable kernel maintainers - the kernels 4.11 and older don't have
the function kvzalloc_node, you can use the function vzalloc_node instead.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
index be12f3f..adb874c 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -1697,7 +1697,7 @@ static struct mapped_device *alloc_dev(int minor)
struct mapped_device *md;
void *old_md;
- md = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*md), GFP_KERNEL, numa_node_id);
+ md = kvzalloc_node(sizeof(*md), GFP_KERNEL, numa_node_id);
if (!md) {
DMWARN("unable to allocate device, out of memory.");
return NULL;
@@ -1797,7 +1797,7 @@ static struct mapped_device *alloc_dev(int minor)
bad_minor:
module_put(THIS_MODULE);
bad_module_get:
- kfree(md);
+ kvfree(md);
return NULL;
}
@@ -1816,7 +1816,7 @@ static void free_dev(struct mapped_device *md)
free_minor(minor);
module_put(THIS_MODULE);
- kfree(md);
+ kvfree(md);
}
static void __bind_mempools(struct mapped_device *md, struct dm_table *t)