Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] zram: try vmalloc() after kmalloc()

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Tue Dec 01 2015 - 02:14:50 EST


On (12/01/15 15:35), Kyeongdon Kim wrote:
[..]
> @test #4
> kmalloc(f)
> __vmalloc(f)
> // cannot find failure both until now
>
> log message (test #4) :
> <4>[ 641.440468][7] KDKIM: zcomp_lz4_create: 24: ret = ffffffc002190000
> <snip>
> <4>[ 922.182980][7] KDKIM: zcomp_lz4_create: 24: ret = ffffffc002208000
> <snip>
> <4>[ 923.197593][7] KDKIM: zcomp_lz4_create: 24: ret = ffffffc002020000
> <snip>
> <4>[ 939.813499][7] KDKIM: zcomp_lz4_create: 24: ret = ffffffc0020a0000

Thanks!

> So,is there another problem if we remove the flag from both sides?
>

Technically, '~__GFP_NOMEMALLOC' is what we've been doing for some time (well,
always); and, as Minchan noted, zsmalloc does not depend on emergency pools.

I vote for removal of __GFP_NOMEMALLOC from both kmalloc() and __vmalloc().

(user can make ->max_strm big enough to deplete emergency mem; but I tend to
ignore it).

Minchan?

-ss
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