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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 7/7] mm/sparse.c: Use __get_free_pages() instead in populate_section_memmap()
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On 10.03.20 15:56, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sat 07-03-20 16:42:29, Baoquan He wrote:
>> This removes the unnecessary goto, and simplify codes.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
>> ---
>> mm/sparse.c | 16 ++++++----------
>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
>> index fde651ab8741..266f7f5040fb 100644
>> --- a/mm/sparse.c
>> +++ b/mm/sparse.c
>> @@ -735,23 +735,19 @@ static void free_map_bootmem(struct page *memmap)
>> struct page * __meminit populate_section_memmap(unsigned long pfn,
>> unsigned long nr_pages, int nid, struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
>> {
>> - struct page *page, *ret;
>> + struct page *ret;
>> unsigned long memmap_size = sizeof(struct page) * PAGES_PER_SECTION;
>>
>> - page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN, get_order(memmap_size));
>> - if (page)
>> - goto got_map_page;
>> + ret = (void*)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN,
>> + get_order(memmap_size));
>> + if (ret)
>> + return ret;
>>
>> ret = vmalloc(memmap_size);
>> if (ret)
>> - goto got_map_ptr;
>> + return ret;
>>
>> return NULL;
>> -got_map_page:
>> - ret = (struct page *)pfn_to_kaddr(page_to_pfn(page));
>> -got_map_ptr:
>> -
>> - return ret;
>> }
>
> Boy this code is ugly. Is there any reason we cannot simply use
> kvmalloc_array(PAGES_PER_SECTION, sizeof(struct page), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN)
>
> And if we care about locality then go even one step further
> kvmalloc_node(PAGES_PER_SECTION * sizeof(struct page), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN, nid)
>

Makes perfect sense to me.

--
Thanks,

David / dhildenb

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