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authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>2013-09-02 20:53:00 +1000
committerBen Myers <bpm@sgi.com>2013-09-10 13:57:03 -0500
commitfdd3cceef46f2c18c618669cfae5c0f47d6982f9 (patch)
tree4f408c2bc2bc36bf5f4da36fd0e0f51fc4857964 /fs/xfs/kmem.c
parent2dc164f2965b92a6efd2edb9e2813271741e96db (diff)
downloadlinux-fdd3cceef46f2c18c618669cfae5c0f47d6982f9.tar.gz
xfs: factor all the kmalloc-or-vmalloc fallback allocations
We have quite a few places now where we do:

	x = kmem_zalloc(large size)
	if (!x)
		x = kmem_zalloc_large(large size)

and do a similar dance when freeing the memory. kmem_free() already
does the correct freeing dance, and kmem_zalloc_large() is only ever
called in these constructs, so just factor it all into
kmem_zalloc_large() and kmem_free().

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>

Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/kmem.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/kmem.c15
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/kmem.c b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
index 4a7286c1dc80..a02cfb9e3bce 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/kmem.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@
 
 /*
  * Greedy allocation.  May fail and may return vmalloced memory.
- *
- * Must be freed using kmem_free_large.
  */
 void *
 kmem_zalloc_greedy(size_t *size, size_t minsize, size_t maxsize)
@@ -36,7 +34,7 @@ kmem_zalloc_greedy(size_t *size, size_t minsize, size_t maxsize)
 	void		*ptr;
 	size_t		kmsize = maxsize;
 
-	while (!(ptr = kmem_zalloc_large(kmsize))) {
+	while (!(ptr = vzalloc(kmsize))) {
 		if ((kmsize >>= 1) <= minsize)
 			kmsize = minsize;
 	}
@@ -75,6 +73,17 @@ kmem_zalloc(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
 	return ptr;
 }
 
+void *
+kmem_zalloc_large(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
+{
+	void	*ptr;
+
+	ptr = kmem_zalloc(size, flags | KM_MAYFAIL);
+	if (ptr)
+		return ptr;
+	return vzalloc(size);
+}
+
 void
 kmem_free(const void *ptr)
 {