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authorDanilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>2024-07-22 18:29:24 +0200
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2024-09-02 05:25:44 +0200
commit590b9d576caec6b4c46bba49ed36223a399c3fc5 (patch)
treee414a82b4e1269c07d3e9033dee7ab4d2a7d99d8 /kernel
parentmm: vmalloc: implement vrealloc() (diff)
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mm: kvmalloc: align kvrealloc() with krealloc()
Besides the obvious (and desired) difference between krealloc() and kvrealloc(), there is some inconsistency in their function signatures and behavior: - krealloc() frees the memory when the requested size is zero, whereas kvrealloc() simply returns a pointer to the existing allocation. - krealloc() behaves like kmalloc() if a NULL pointer is passed, whereas kvrealloc() does not accept a NULL pointer at all and, if passed, would fault instead. - krealloc() is self-contained, whereas kvrealloc() relies on the caller to provide the size of the previous allocation. Inconsistent behavior throughout allocation APIs is error prone, hence make kvrealloc() behave like krealloc(), which seems superior in all mentioned aspects. Besides that, implementing kvrealloc() by making use of krealloc() and vrealloc() provides oppertunities to grow (and shrink) allocations more efficiently. For instance, vrealloc() can be optimized to allocate and map additional pages to grow the allocation or unmap and free unused pages to shrink the allocation. [dakr@kernel.org: document concurrency restrictions] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240725125442.4957-1-dakr@kernel.org [dakr@kernel.org: disable KASAN when switching to vmalloc] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240730185049.6244-2-dakr@kernel.org [dakr@kernel.org: properly document __GFP_ZERO behavior] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240730185049.6244-5-dakr@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240722163111.4766-3-dakr@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com> Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/resource.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
index 14777afb0a99..9f747bb7cd03 100644
--- a/kernel/resource.c
+++ b/kernel/resource.c
@@ -450,8 +450,7 @@ int walk_system_ram_res_rev(u64 start, u64 end, void *arg,
/* re-alloc */
struct resource *rams_new;
- rams_new = kvrealloc(rams, rams_size * sizeof(struct resource),
- (rams_size + 16) * sizeof(struct resource),
+ rams_new = kvrealloc(rams, (rams_size + 16) * sizeof(struct resource),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!rams_new)
goto out;