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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/2] mm/sparse.c: Use kvmalloc/kvfree to alloc/free memmap for the classic sparse
On 03/16/20 at 12:00pm, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 16.03.20 11:21, Baoquan He wrote:
> > This change makes populate_section_memmap()/depopulate_section_memmap
> > much simpler.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
> > Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> > ---
> > v3->v4:
> > Split the old v3 into two patches, to carve out the using 'nid'
> > as preferred node to allocate memmap into a separate patch. This
> > is suggested by Michal, and the carving out is put in patch 2.
> >
> > v2->v3:
> > Remove __GFP_NOWARN and use array_size when calling kvmalloc_node()
> > per Matthew's comments.
> > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200312141749.GL27711@MiWiFi-R3L-srv
> >
> > mm/sparse.c | 27 +++------------------------
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
> > index e747a238a860..d01d09cc7d99 100644
> > --- a/mm/sparse.c
> > +++ b/mm/sparse.c
> > @@ -719,35 +719,14 @@ static int fill_subsection_map(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
> > struct page * __meminit populate_section_memmap(unsigned long pfn,
> > unsigned long nr_pages, int nid, struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
> > {
> > - struct page *page, *ret;
> > - unsigned long memmap_size = sizeof(struct page) * PAGES_PER_SECTION;
> > -
> > - page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN, get_order(memmap_size));
> > - if (page)
> > - goto got_map_page;
> > -
> > - ret = vmalloc(memmap_size);
> > - if (ret)
> > - goto got_map_ptr;
> > -
> > - return NULL;
> > -got_map_page:
> > - ret = (struct page *)pfn_to_kaddr(page_to_pfn(page));
> > -got_map_ptr:
> > -
> > - return ret;
> > + return kvmalloc(array_size(sizeof(struct page),
> > + PAGES_PER_SECTION), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> FWIW, this is what I meant:
>
> return kvmalloc(array_size(sizeof(struct page),
> PAGES_PER_SECTION), GFP_KERNEL);
Since there's another parameter, I didn't indent it with sizeof. But
Pankaj and Matthew have added other two votes on this, I will change it,
thanks.

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