Re: [PATCH] thermal: sysfs: Fall back to vmalloc() for cooling device's statistics

[Amit Kucheria]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 8:14 AM Yue Hu <zbestahu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Yue Hu <huyue2@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> We observed warning about kzalloc() when register thermal cooling device
> in backlight_device_register(). backlight display can be a cooling device
> since reducing screen brightness will can help reduce temperature.
>
> However, ->get_max_state of backlight will assign max brightness of 1024
> to states. The memory size can be getting 1MB+ due to states * states.
> That is so large to trigger kmalloc() warning.
>
> So, let's use kvzalloc() to avoid the issue, also change kfree -> kvfree.
>
> Suggested-by: Amit Kucheria <amitk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yue Hu <huyue2@xxxxxxxxxx>

 Reviewed-by: Amit Kucheria <amitk@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> index aa99edb..d1703ee 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
>  #include <linux/device.h>
>  #include <linux/err.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
> +#include <linux/mm.h>
>  #include <linux/string.h>
>  #include <linux/jiffies.h>
>
> @@ -919,7 +920,7 @@ static void cooling_device_stats_setup(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev)
>         var += sizeof(*stats->time_in_state) * states;
>         var += sizeof(*stats->trans_table) * states * states;
>
> -       stats = kzalloc(var, GFP_KERNEL);
> +       stats = kvzalloc(var, GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (!stats)
>                 return;
>
> @@ -938,7 +939,7 @@ static void cooling_device_stats_setup(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev)
>
>  static void cooling_device_stats_destroy(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev)
>  {
> -       kfree(cdev->stats);
> +       kvfree(cdev->stats);
>         cdev->stats = NULL;
>  }
>
> --
> 1.9.1
>