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Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/nommu.c | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 45 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmalloc.c | 9 |
3 files changed, 58 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c index 2d131b97a851..a80411d258fc 100644 --- a/mm/nommu.c +++ b/mm/nommu.c @@ -237,6 +237,11 @@ void *__vmalloc(unsigned long size, gfp_t gfp_mask, pgprot_t prot) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vmalloc); +void *__vmalloc_node_flags(unsigned long size, int node, gfp_t flags) +{ + return __vmalloc(size, flags, PAGE_KERNEL); +} + void *vmalloc_user(unsigned long size) { void *ret; diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 656dc5e37a87..10a14a0ac3c2 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -329,6 +329,51 @@ unsigned long vm_mmap(struct file *file, unsigned long addr, } EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_mmap); +/** + * kvmalloc_node - attempt to allocate physically contiguous memory, but upon + * failure, fall back to non-contiguous (vmalloc) allocation. + * @size: size of the request. + * @flags: gfp mask for the allocation - must be compatible (superset) with GFP_KERNEL. + * @node: numa node to allocate from + * + * Uses kmalloc to get the memory but if the allocation fails then falls back + * to the vmalloc allocator. Use kvfree for freeing the memory. + * + * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY, __GFP_REPEAT and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported + * + * Any use of gfp flags outside of GFP_KERNEL should be consulted with mm people. + */ +void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node) +{ + gfp_t kmalloc_flags = flags; + void *ret; + + /* + * vmalloc uses GFP_KERNEL for some internal allocations (e.g page tables) + * so the given set of flags has to be compatible. + */ + WARN_ON_ONCE((flags & GFP_KERNEL) != GFP_KERNEL); + + /* + * Make sure that larger requests are not too disruptive - no OOM + * killer and no allocation failure warnings as we have a fallback + */ + if (size > PAGE_SIZE) + kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN; + + ret = kmalloc_node(size, kmalloc_flags, node); + + /* + * It doesn't really make sense to fallback to vmalloc for sub page + * requests + */ + if (ret || size <= PAGE_SIZE) + return ret; + + return __vmalloc_node_flags(size, node, flags | __GFP_HIGHMEM); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvmalloc_node); + void kvfree(const void *addr) { if (is_vmalloc_addr(addr)) diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index b52aeed3f58e..33603239560e 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -1786,6 +1786,13 @@ fail: * Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level * allocator with @gfp_mask flags. Map them into contiguous * kernel virtual space, using a pagetable protection of @prot. + * + * Reclaim modifiers in @gfp_mask - __GFP_NORETRY, __GFP_REPEAT + * and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported + * + * Any use of gfp flags outside of GFP_KERNEL should be consulted + * with mm people. + * */ static void *__vmalloc_node(unsigned long size, unsigned long align, gfp_t gfp_mask, pgprot_t prot, @@ -1802,7 +1809,7 @@ void *__vmalloc(unsigned long size, gfp_t gfp_mask, pgprot_t prot) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vmalloc); -static inline void *__vmalloc_node_flags(unsigned long size, +void *__vmalloc_node_flags(unsigned long size, int node, gfp_t flags) { return __vmalloc_node(size, 1, flags, PAGE_KERNEL, |