On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 7:37 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> > > There are many code paths opencoding kvmalloc. Let's use the helper > instead. The main difference to kvmalloc is that those users are usually > not considering all the aspects of the memory allocator. E.g. allocation > requests < 64kB are basically never failing and invoke OOM killer to > satisfy the allocation. This sounds too disruptive for something that > has a reasonable fallback - the vmalloc. On the other hand those > requests might fallback to vmalloc even when the memory allocator would > succeed after several more reclaim/compaction attempts previously. There > is no guarantee something like that happens though. > > This patch converts many of those places to kv[mz]alloc* helpers because > they are more conservative. > [..] > Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> [..] > drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c | 5 +--- Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>