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Re: [PATCH for-next 03/11] IB/hns: Optimize the logic of allocating memory using APIs

From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Date: 2016-11-09 07:21:40
Also in: lkml, netdev

On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 04:36:25PM +0000, Salil Mehta wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
From: "Wei Hu (Xavier)" <redacted>

This patch modified the logic of allocating memory using APIs in
hns RoCE driver. We used kcalloc instead of kmalloc_array and
bitmap_zero. And When kcalloc failed, call vzalloc to alloc
memory.

Signed-off-by: Wei Hu (Xavier) <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Ping Zhang <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Salil Mehta  <redacted>
---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_mr.c |   15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_mr.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_mr.c
index fb87883..d3dfb5f 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_mr.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_mr.c
@@ -137,11 +137,12 @@ static int hns_roce_buddy_init(struct hns_roce_buddy *buddy, int max_order)

 	for (i = 0; i <= buddy->max_order; ++i) {
 		s = BITS_TO_LONGS(1 << (buddy->max_order - i));
-		buddy->bits[i] = kmalloc_array(s, sizeof(long), GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!buddy->bits[i])
-			goto err_out_free;
-
-		bitmap_zero(buddy->bits[i], 1 << (buddy->max_order - i));
+		buddy->bits[i] = kcalloc(s, sizeof(long), GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!buddy->bits[i]) {
+			buddy->bits[i] = vzalloc(s * sizeof(long));
I wonder, why don't you use directly vzalloc instead of kcalloc fallback?
+			if (!buddy->bits[i])
+				goto err_out_free;
+		}
 	}

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