From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] fs, seq_file: fallback to vmalloc instead of oom kill processes
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 14:38:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1417041526.16355.7.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141126142404.bc6b03387d5e869908db5e38@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 14:24 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> There are eleventy billion places where we do the open coded
> kmalloc-or-vmalloc thing. Sigh. Perhaps it is time to add a helper
> function which does this, so that all such callers use
> __GFP_NO_OOM_KILL.
That would go along nicely with kvfree() in mm/util.c
void kvfree(const void *addr)
{
if (is_vmalloc_addr(addr))
vfree(addr);
else
kfree(addr);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvfree);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-26 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-26 22:16 David Rientjes
2014-11-26 22:24 ` Andrew Morton
2014-11-26 22:38 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2014-11-26 22:40 ` David Rientjes
2014-11-26 22:48 ` Andrew Morton
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