1 From 9933fc0ac1ac14b795819cd63d05ea92112f690a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
3 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 08:45:02 -0400
4 Subject: ext4: introduce ext4_kvmalloc(), ext4_kzalloc(), and ext4_kvfree()
6 Patch-mainline: v3.1-rc1
8 Introduce new helper functions which try kmalloc, and then fall back
9 to vmalloc if necessary, and use them for allocating and deallocating
12 Upstream-Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
13 Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
15 fs/ext4/ext4.h | 3 +++
16 fs/ext4/super.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
17 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
19 diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
20 index ba2009b..db9fead 100644
23 @@ -1874,6 +1874,9 @@ extern int ext4_group_extend(struct super_block *sb,
24 ext4_fsblk_t n_blocks_count);
27 +extern void *ext4_kvmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags);
28 +extern void *ext4_kvzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags);
29 +extern void ext4_kvfree(void *ptr);
30 extern void __ext4_error(struct super_block *, const char *, unsigned int,
32 __attribute__ ((format (printf, 4, 5)));
33 diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
34 index cfe9f39..658f586 100644
37 @@ -110,6 +110,35 @@ static struct file_system_type ext3_fs_type = {
38 #define IS_EXT3_SB(sb) (0)
41 +void *ext4_kvmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
45 + ret = kmalloc(size, flags);
47 + ret = __vmalloc(size, flags, PAGE_KERNEL);
51 +void *ext4_kvzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
55 + ret = kmalloc(size, flags);
57 + ret = __vmalloc(size, flags | __GFP_ZERO, PAGE_KERNEL);
61 +void ext4_kvfree(void *ptr)
63 + if (is_vmalloc_addr(ptr))
70 ext4_fsblk_t ext4_block_bitmap(struct super_block *sb,
71 struct ext4_group_desc *bg)
73 @@ -791,10 +820,7 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
74 for (i = 0; i < sbi->s_gdb_count; i++)
75 brelse(sbi->s_group_desc[i]);
76 kfree(sbi->s_group_desc);
77 - if (is_vmalloc_addr(sbi->s_flex_groups))
78 - vfree(sbi->s_flex_groups);
80 - kfree(sbi->s_flex_groups);
81 + ext4_kvfree(sbi->s_flex_groups);
82 percpu_counter_destroy(&sbi->s_freeblocks_counter);
83 percpu_counter_destroy(&sbi->s_freeinodes_counter);
84 percpu_counter_destroy(&sbi->s_dirs_counter);
85 @@ -1977,15 +2003,11 @@ static int ext4_fill_flex_info(struct super_block *sb)
86 ((le16_to_cpu(sbi->s_es->s_reserved_gdt_blocks) + 1) <<
87 EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK_BITS(sb))) / groups_per_flex;
88 size = flex_group_count * sizeof(struct flex_groups);
89 - sbi->s_flex_groups = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
90 + sbi->s_flex_groups = ext4_kvzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
91 if (sbi->s_flex_groups == NULL) {
92 - sbi->s_flex_groups = vzalloc(size);
93 - if (sbi->s_flex_groups == NULL) {
94 - ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
95 - "not enough memory for %u flex groups",
99 + ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "not enough memory for %u flex groups",
104 for (i = 0; i < sbi->s_groups_count; i++) {
105 @@ -3750,12 +3772,8 @@ failed_mount_wq:
108 del_timer(&sbi->s_err_report);
109 - if (sbi->s_flex_groups) {
110 - if (is_vmalloc_addr(sbi->s_flex_groups))
111 - vfree(sbi->s_flex_groups);
113 - kfree(sbi->s_flex_groups);
115 + if (sbi->s_flex_groups)
116 + ext4_kvfree(sbi->s_flex_groups);
117 percpu_counter_destroy(&sbi->s_freeblocks_counter);
118 percpu_counter_destroy(&sbi->s_freeinodes_counter);
119 percpu_counter_destroy(&sbi->s_dirs_counter);