Currently, we try to allocate the cache as a single, large chunk, which can fail if no big chunks of memory are available. We _do_ try to size it according to the amount of memory in the box, but if the server is started well after boot time, then the allocation can fail due to memory fragmentation. Fall back to doing a vzalloc if the kcalloc fails, and switch the shutdown code to do a kvfree to handle freeing correctly. Reported-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfscache.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfscache.c b/fs/nfsd/nfscache.c index 54cde9a5864e..d6b97b424ad1 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfscache.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfscache.c @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ */ #include <linux/slab.h> +#include <linux/vmalloc.h> #include <linux/sunrpc/addr.h> #include <linux/highmem.h> #include <linux/log2.h> @@ -174,8 +175,12 @@ int nfsd_reply_cache_init(void) goto out_nomem; drc_hashtbl = kcalloc(hashsize, sizeof(*drc_hashtbl), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!drc_hashtbl) - goto out_nomem; + if (!drc_hashtbl) { + drc_hashtbl = vzalloc(hashsize * sizeof(*drc_hashtbl)); + if (!drc_hashtbl) + goto out_nomem; + } + for (i = 0; i < hashsize; i++) { INIT_LIST_HEAD(&drc_hashtbl[i].lru_head); spin_lock_init(&drc_hashtbl[i].cache_lock); @@ -204,7 +209,7 @@ void nfsd_reply_cache_shutdown(void) } } - kfree (drc_hashtbl); + kvfree(drc_hashtbl); drc_hashtbl = NULL; drc_hashsize = 0; -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html