Re: [PATCH] silence nfscache allocation warnings with kvzalloc

[J. Bruce Fields]

Applying, thanks.--b.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 01:07:19PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> silence nfscache allocation warnings with kvzalloc
> 
> Currently nfsd_reply_cache_init attempts hash table allocation through
> kmalloc, and manually falls back to vzalloc if that fails. This makes
> the code a little larger than needed, and creates a significant amount
> of serial console spam if you have enough systems.
> 
> Switching to kvzalloc gets rid of the allocation warnings, and makes
> the code a little cleaner too as a side effect.
> 
> Freeing of nn->drc_hashtbl is already done using kvfree currently.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfscache.c b/fs/nfsd/nfscache.c
> index 96352ab7bd81..5125b5ef25b6 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfscache.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfscache.c
> @@ -164,14 +164,10 @@ int nfsd_reply_cache_init(struct nfsd_net *nn)
>  	if (!nn->drc_slab)
>  		goto out_shrinker;
>  
> -	nn->drc_hashtbl = kcalloc(hashsize,
> -				sizeof(*nn->drc_hashtbl), GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!nn->drc_hashtbl) {
> -		nn->drc_hashtbl = vzalloc(array_size(hashsize,
> -						 sizeof(*nn->drc_hashtbl)));
> -		if (!nn->drc_hashtbl)
> -			goto out_slab;
> -	}
> +	nn->drc_hashtbl = kvzalloc(array_size(hashsize,
> +				   sizeof(*nn->drc_hashtbl)), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!nn->drc_hashtbl)
> +		goto out_slab;
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < hashsize; i++) {
>  		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&nn->drc_hashtbl[i].lru_head);