Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH] drm/nouveau/kms/nv04: use vzalloc for nv04_display

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On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 03:49, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The struct is giant, and triggers an order-7 allocation (512K). There is
> no reason for this to be kmalloc-type memory, so switch to vmalloc. This
> should help loading nouveau on low-memory and/or long-running systems.
>
> Reported-by: Nathan E. Egge <unlord@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks!

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv04/disp.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv04/disp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv04/disp.c
> index 7739f46470d3..99fee4d8cd31 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv04/disp.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv04/disp.c
> @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ nv04_display_destroy(struct drm_device *dev)
>         nvif_notify_dtor(&disp->flip);
>
>         nouveau_display(dev)->priv = NULL;
> -       kfree(disp);
> +       vfree(disp);
>
>         nvif_object_unmap(&drm->client.device.object);
>  }
> @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ nv04_display_create(struct drm_device *dev)
>         struct nv04_display *disp;
>         int i, ret;
>
> -       disp = kzalloc(sizeof(*disp), GFP_KERNEL);
> +       disp = vzalloc(sizeof(*disp));
>         if (!disp)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
>
> --
> 2.26.2
>
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