Re: [PATCH] scsi: libcxgbi: use kvzalloc instead of opencoded kzalloc/vzalloc

From: Denis Efremov
Date: Sat Aug 01 2020 - 09:31:33 EST




On 8/1/20 11:10 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-08-01 at 10:51 +0300, Denis Efremov wrote:
>> On 8/1/20 1:24 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2020-08-01 at 01:10 +0300, Denis Efremov wrote:
>>>> On 8/1/20 12:58 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 2020-08-01 at 00:55 +0300, Denis Efremov wrote:
>>>>>> Remove cxgbi_alloc_big_mem(), cxgbi_free_big_mem() functions
>>>>>> and use kvzalloc/kvfree instead.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sensible, thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/libcxgbi.c b/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/libcxgbi.c
>>>>> []
>>>>>> @@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ int cxgbi_device_portmap_create(struct cxgbi_device *cdev, unsigned int base,
>>>>>> {
>>>>>> struct cxgbi_ports_map *pmap = &cdev->pmap;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - pmap->port_csk = cxgbi_alloc_big_mem(max_conn *
>>>>>> - sizeof(struct cxgbi_sock *),
>>>>>> - GFP_KERNEL);
>>>>>> + pmap->port_csk = kvzalloc(array_size(max_conn,
>>>>>> + sizeof(struct cxgbi_sock *)),
>>>>>> + GFP_KERNEL);
>>>>>
>>>>> missing __GFP_NOWARN
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> kvmalloc_node adds __GFP_NOWARN internally to kmalloc call
>>>> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.8-rc4/source/mm/util.c#L568
>>>
>>> Only when there's a fallback, and the fallback does not.
>> Sorry, Joe, I don't understand why do we need to add __GFP_NOWARN here.
>
> Hi.
>
> The reason to add __GFP_NOWARN is so you don't get a
> dump_stack() as there's an existing error message
> output below this when OOM.
>
> You should either remove the error message as it just
> effectively duplicates the dump_stack or add __GFP_NOWARN.

Now I see, thanks! I will send v2.

Regards,
Denis