Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:37:41 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> +static int pci_create_attr(struct pci_dev *pdev, int num, int write_combine)
> +{
> +	/* allocate attribute structure, piggyback attribute name */
> +	int name_len = write_combine ? 13 : 10;
> +	struct bin_attribute *res_attr;
> +	int retval;
> +
> +	res_attr = kzalloc(sizeof(*res_attr) + name_len, GFP_ATOMIC);

That (retained from current code) GFP_ATOMIC cannot be necessary.

> +	if (res_attr) {
> +		char *res_attr_name = (char *)(res_attr + 1);
> +
> +		if (write_combine) {
> +			pdev->res_attr_wc[num] = res_attr;
> +			sprintf(res_attr_name, "resource%d_wc", num);
> +			res_attr->mmap = pci_mmap_resource_wc;
> +		} else {
> +			pdev->res_attr[num] = res_attr;
> +			sprintf(res_attr_name, "resource%d", num);
> +			res_attr->mmap = pci_mmap_resource_uc;
> +		}
> +		res_attr->attr.name = res_attr_name;
> +		res_attr->attr.mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
> +		res_attr->size = pci_resource_len(pdev, num);
> +		res_attr->private = &pdev->resource[num];
> +		retval = sysfs_create_bin_file(&pdev->dev.kobj, res_attr);

Because of this.

> +	} else
> +		retval = -ENOMEM;
> +
> +	return retval;
> +}
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