Re: [PATCH 3/7] memcontrol: use simple_malloc()/simple_free()

[Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 07:51:28AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:33:46PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> > use simple_malloc()/simple_free() instead of current codes.
> 
> struct mem_cgroup can't reach the size when kmalloc starts failing.

Or it probably can with big NR_CPUS.

	struct mem_cgroup_stat {
  	      struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu cpustat[NR_CPUS];
	};

> > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > @@ -1062,11 +1062,7 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void)
> >  {
> >  	struct mem_cgroup *mem;
> >  
> > -	if (sizeof(*mem) < PAGE_SIZE)
> > -		mem = kmalloc(sizeof(*mem), GFP_KERNEL);
> > -	else
> > -		mem = vmalloc(sizeof(*mem));
> > -
> > +	mem = simple_malloc(sizeof(*mem));
> >  	if (mem)
> >  		memset(mem, 0, sizeof(*mem));
> >  	return mem;
> > @@ -1074,10 +1070,7 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void)
> >  
> >  static void mem_cgroup_free(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
> >  {
> > -	if (sizeof(*mem) < PAGE_SIZE)
> > -		kfree(mem);
> > -	else
> > -		vfree(mem);
> > +	simple_free(mem);
> >  }