Re: [PATCH -mm -v3] mm, swap: Use kvzalloc to allocate some swap data structure

From	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH -mm -v3] mm, swap: Use kvzalloc to allocate some swap data structure
Date	2017-04-07 15:10 +0200
Message-ID	<ttBOi-7vK-31@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 14:49 +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
> 
> Now vzalloc() is used in swap code to allocate various data
> structures, such as swap cache, swap slots cache, cluster info, etc.
> Because the size may be too large on some system, so that normal
> kzalloc() may fail.  But using kzalloc() has some advantages,

> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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[PATCH -mm -v3] mm, swap: Use kvzalloc to allocate some swap data structure "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> - 2017-04-07 08:50 +0200
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