[PATCH 6/4] ipc/mqueue: don't use kmalloc(KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Wed Oct 26 2011 - 11:36:58 EST



KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE is no good threshold. It is extream high and
problematic. Unfortunately, some silly drivers depend on and
we can't change it. but any new code don't use such extream
ugly high order allocations. It bring us awful fragmentation
issue and system slowdown.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@xxxxxxxx>
---
ipc/mqueue.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ipc/mqueue.c b/ipc/mqueue.c
index 229a5fb..91ca145 100644
--- a/ipc/mqueue.c
+++ b/ipc/mqueue.c
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ static struct inode *mqueue_get_inode(struct super_block *sb,
info->attr.mq_msgsize = attr->mq_msgsize;
}
mq_msg_tblsz = info->attr.mq_maxmsg * sizeof(struct msg_msg *);
- if (mq_msg_tblsz > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
+ if (mq_msg_tblsz > PAGE_SIZE)
info->messages = vmalloc(mq_msg_tblsz);
else
info->messages = kmalloc(mq_msg_tblsz, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ static void mqueue_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
spin_lock(&info->lock);
for (i = 0; i < info->attr.mq_curmsgs; i++)
free_msg(info->messages[i]);
- if (info->attr.mq_maxmsg * sizeof(struct msg_msg *) > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
+ if (is_vmalloc_addr(info->messages))
vfree(info->messages);
else
kfree(info->messages);
--
1.7.5.2


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