Re: [PATCH -mm] relayfs: support larger relay buffer

[Pekka Enberg]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Use vmalloc() and memset() instead of kcalloc() to allocate a page* array
>  when the array size is bigger than one page. This enables relayfs to support
>  bigger relay buffers than 64MB on 4k-page system, 512MB on 16k-page system.
>
>  Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  ---
>  @@ -130,7 +138,10 @@ static void *relay_alloc_buf(struct rcha
>   depopulate:
>         for (j = 0; j < i; j++)
>                 __free_page(buf->page_array[j]);
>  -       kfree(buf->page_array);
>  +       if (pa_size > PAGE_SIZE)

You can use is_vmalloc_addr() here.

>  +               vfree(buf->page_array);
>  +       else
>  +               kfree(buf->page_array);
>         return NULL;
>   }
>
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