Re: [PATCH] drm: use kvmalloc_array for drm_malloc*

From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Tue May 16 2017 - 05:27:59 EST


On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:06:06AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
>
> drm_malloc* has grown their own kmalloc with vmalloc fallback
> implementations. MM has grown kvmalloc* helpers in the meantime. Let's
> use those because it a) reduces the code and b) MM has a better idea
> how to implement fallbacks (e.g. do not vmalloc before kmalloc is tried
> with __GFP_NORETRY).
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

Shouldn't we go one step further and just remove these wrappers, maybe
with cocci? Especially drm_malloc_gfp is surpremely pointless after this
patch (and drm_malloc_ab probably not that useful either).
-Daniel
> ---
> include/drm/drm_mem_util.h | 23 ++---------------------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_mem_util.h b/include/drm/drm_mem_util.h
> index d0f6cf2e5324..b461e4e4e6db 100644
> --- a/include/drm/drm_mem_util.h
> +++ b/include/drm/drm_mem_util.h
> @@ -43,31 +43,12 @@ static __inline__ void *drm_calloc_large(size_t nmemb, size_t size)
> /* Modeled after cairo's malloc_ab, it's like calloc but without the zeroing. */
> static __inline__ void *drm_malloc_ab(size_t nmemb, size_t size)
> {
> - if (size != 0 && nmemb > SIZE_MAX / size)
> - return NULL;
> -
> - if (size * nmemb <= PAGE_SIZE)
> - return kmalloc(nmemb * size, GFP_KERNEL);
> -
> - return vmalloc(size * nmemb);
> + return kvmalloc_array(nmemb, size, GFP_KERNEL);
> }
>
> static __inline__ void *drm_malloc_gfp(size_t nmemb, size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
> {
> - if (size != 0 && nmemb > SIZE_MAX / size)
> - return NULL;
> -
> - if (size * nmemb <= PAGE_SIZE)
> - return kmalloc(nmemb * size, gfp);
> -
> - if (gfp & __GFP_RECLAIMABLE) {
> - void *ptr = kmalloc(nmemb * size,
> - gfp | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY);
> - if (ptr)
> - return ptr;
> - }
> -
> - return __vmalloc(size * nmemb, gfp, PAGE_KERNEL);
> + return kvmalloc_array(nmemb, size, gfp);
> }
>
> static __inline void drm_free_large(void *ptr)
> --
> 2.11.0
>
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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