We observed that some of virtio_gpu_object_shmem_init() allocations can be rather costly - order 6 - which can be difficult to fulfill under memory pressure conditions. Switch to kvmalloc_array() in virtio_gpu_object_shmem_init() and let the kernel vmalloc the entries array. Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_object.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_object.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_object.c index 2d3aa7baffe4..d9ad27e00905 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_object.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_object.c @@ -184,8 +184,9 @@ static int virtio_gpu_object_shmem_init(struct virtio_gpu_device *vgdev, *nents = shmem->pages->orig_nents; } - *ents = kmalloc_array(*nents, sizeof(struct virtio_gpu_mem_entry), - GFP_KERNEL); + *ents = kvmalloc_array(*nents, + sizeof(struct virtio_gpu_mem_entry), + GFP_KERNEL); if (!(*ents)) { DRM_ERROR("failed to allocate ent list\n"); return -ENOMEM; -- 2.29.1.341.ge80a0c044ae-goog _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel