[PATCH v2] mm: use kvzalloc for swap_info_struct allocation

From: Vasily Averin
Date: Mon Nov 05 2018 - 06:17:08 EST


commit a2468cc9bfdf ("swap: choose swap device according to numa node")
changed 'avail_lists' field of 'struct swap_info_struct' to an array.
In popular linux distros it increased size of swap_info_struct up to
40 Kbytes and now swap_info_struct allocation requires order-4 page.
Switch to kvzmalloc allows to avoid unexpected allocation failures.

Acked-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/swapfile.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 644f746e167a..8688ae65ef58 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -2813,7 +2813,7 @@ static struct swap_info_struct *alloc_swap_info(void)
unsigned int type;
int i;

- p = kzalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL);
+ p = kvzalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!p)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

@@ -2824,7 +2824,7 @@ static struct swap_info_struct *alloc_swap_info(void)
}
if (type >= MAX_SWAPFILES) {
spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
- kfree(p);
+ kvfree(p);
return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
}
if (type >= nr_swapfiles) {
@@ -2838,7 +2838,7 @@ static struct swap_info_struct *alloc_swap_info(void)
smp_wmb();
nr_swapfiles++;
} else {
- kfree(p);
+ kvfree(p);
p = swap_info[type];
/*
* Do not memset this entry: a racing procfs swap_next()
--
2.17.1