Re: [PATCH] mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

On Thu 05-01-17 19:40:10, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2017/01/04 23:20, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > OK, so I've checked the open coded implementations and converted most of
> > them. There are few which are either confused and need some special
> > handling or need double checking.
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/util.h b/drivers/md/bcache/util.h
> > index cf2cbc211d83..9dc0f0ff0321 100644
> > --- a/drivers/md/bcache/util.h
> > +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/util.h
> > @@ -44,10 +44,7 @@ struct closure;
> >  	(heap)->size = (_size);						\
> >  	_bytes = (heap)->size * sizeof(*(heap)->data);			\
> >  	(heap)->data = NULL;						\
> > -	if (_bytes < KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)					\
> > -		(heap)->data = kmalloc(_bytes, (gfp));			\
> > -	if ((!(heap)->data) && ((gfp) & GFP_KERNEL))			\
> > -		(heap)->data = vmalloc(_bytes);				\
> > +	(heap)->data = kvmalloc(_bytes, (gfp) & GFP_KERNEL);		\
> >  	(heap)->data;							\
> >  })
> >  
> > @@ -138,10 +135,7 @@ do {									\
> >  	(fifo)->front = (fifo)->back = 0;				\
> >  	(fifo)->data = NULL;						\
> >  									\
> > -	if (_bytes < KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)					\
> > -		(fifo)->data = kmalloc(_bytes, (gfp));			\
> > -	if ((!(fifo)->data) && ((gfp) & GFP_KERNEL))			\
> > -		(fifo)->data = vmalloc(_bytes);				\
> > +	(fifo)->data = kvmalloc(_bytes, (gfp) & GFP_KERNEL);		\
> >  	(fifo)->data;							\
> >  })
> 
> These macros are doing strange checks.
> ((gfp) & GFP_KERNEL) means any bit in GFP_KERNEL is set.
> ((gfp) & GFP_KERNEL) == GFP_KERNEL might make sense. Actually,
> all callers seems to be passing GFP_KERNEL to these macros.

Yes the code is confused. I've seen worse when going through the drivers
code...

> Kent, how do you want to correct this? You want to apply
> a patch that removes gfp argument before applying this patch?
> Or, you want Michal to directly overwrite by this patch?

I would just get rid of it here as init_heap has just one caller with
GFP_KERNEL and __init_fifo has GFP_KERNEL users as well. But if it is
preferable to clean up this first then I can do that.
 
> Michal, "(fifo)->data = NULL;" line will become redundant
> and "(gfp) & GFP_KERNEL" will become "GFP_KERNEL".

true. will remove it.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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