From: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
To: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>,
linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvmet: convert from kmap to nvmet_copy_from_sgl
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 11:38:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170419093826.GB10632@linux-x5ow.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3cf1fbf9-8b1d-4acb-e680-87efa5ca7c6d@mellanox.com>
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 12:33:09PM +0300, Max Gurtovoy wrote:
> Hi Logan,
>
> On 4/19/2017 2:32 AM, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> >This is safer as it doesn't rely on the data being stored in
> >a single page in an sgl.
> >
> >It also aids our effort to start phasing out users of sg_page. See [1].
> >
> >For this we kmalloc some memory, copy to it and free at the end. Note:
> >we can't allocate this memory on the stack as the kbuild test robot
> >reports some frame size overflows on i386.
> >
> >[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/720053/
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
> >Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> >Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
> >---
> > drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> > 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd.c b/drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd.c
> >index 8bd022af..2e0ab10 100644
> >--- a/drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd.c
> >+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd.c
> >@@ -122,7 +122,15 @@ static void nvmet_execute_admin_connect(struct nvmet_req *req)
> > struct nvmet_ctrl *ctrl = NULL;
> > u16 status = 0;
> >
> >- d = kmap(sg_page(req->sg)) + req->sg->offset;
> >+ d = kmalloc(sizeof(*d), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> I'd prefer removing the dynamic allocation and use d on the stack to
> simplify the code.
> Any thoughts ?
Hi Max,
Pasting from above:
> >we can't allocate this memory on the stack as the kbuild test robot
> >reports some frame size overflows on i386.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-19 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-18 23:32 [PATCH] nvmet: convert from kmap to nvmet_copy_from_sgl Logan Gunthorpe
2017-04-19 9:33 ` Max Gurtovoy
2017-04-19 9:38 ` Johannes Thumshirn [this message]
2017-04-19 9:44 ` Max Gurtovoy
2017-04-19 15:40 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2017-04-19 19:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-20 11:31 ` Sagi Grimberg
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