[PATCH 4.19 03/52] drm/virtio: use kvmalloc for large allocations
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2021-03-05 12:38:42
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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> commit ea86f3defd55f141a44146e66cbf8ffb683d60da upstream. We observed that some of virtio_gpu_object_shmem_init() allocations can be rather costly - order 6 - which can be difficult to fulfill under memory pressure conditions. Switch to kvmalloc_array() in virtio_gpu_object_shmem_init() and let the kernel vmalloc the entries array. Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20201105014744.1662226-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Horn <redacted> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c@@ -868,9 +868,9 @@ int virtio_gpu_object_attach(struct virt } /* gets freed when the ring has consumed it */ - ents = kmalloc_array(obj->pages->nents, - sizeof(struct virtio_gpu_mem_entry), - GFP_KERNEL); + ents = kvmalloc_array(obj->pages->nents, + sizeof(struct virtio_gpu_mem_entry), + GFP_KERNEL); if (!ents) { DRM_ERROR("failed to allocate ent list\n"); return -ENOMEM;