[PATCH] vhost/scsi: use vmalloc for order-10 allocation

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

As vhost scsi device struct is large, if the device is
created on a busy system, kzalloc() might fail, so this patch does a
fallback to vzalloc().

As vmalloc() adds overhead on data-path, add __GFP_REPEAT
to kzalloc() flags to do this fallback only when really needed.

Reported-by: Dan Aloni <alonid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

I put this on my vhost fixes branch, intend to merge for 3.12.
Dan, could you please confirm this works for you?

 drivers/vhost/scsi.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
index 4b79a1f..2c30bb0 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
@@ -1373,21 +1373,30 @@ static int vhost_scsi_set_features(struct vhost_scsi *vs, u64 features)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static void vhost_scsi_free(struct vhost_scsi *vs)
+{
+        if (is_vmalloc_addr(vs))
+                vfree(vs);
+        else
+                kfree(vs);
+}
+
 static int vhost_scsi_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *f)
 {
 	struct vhost_scsi *vs;
 	struct vhost_virtqueue **vqs;
-	int r, i;
+	int r = -ENOMEM, i;
 
-	vs = kzalloc(sizeof(*vs), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!vs)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+        vs = kzalloc(sizeof(*vs), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_REPEAT);
+	if (!vs) {
+		vs = vzalloc(sizeof(*vs));
+		if (!vs)
+			goto err_vs;
+	}
 
 	vqs = kmalloc(VHOST_SCSI_MAX_VQ * sizeof(*vqs), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!vqs) {
-		kfree(vs);
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
+	if (!vqs)
+		goto err_vqs;
 
 	vhost_work_init(&vs->vs_completion_work, vhost_scsi_complete_cmd_work);
 	vhost_work_init(&vs->vs_event_work, tcm_vhost_evt_work);
@@ -1407,14 +1416,18 @@ static int vhost_scsi_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *f)
 
 	tcm_vhost_init_inflight(vs, NULL);
 
-	if (r < 0) {
-		kfree(vqs);
-		kfree(vs);
-		return r;
-	}
+	if (r < 0)
+		goto err_init;
 
 	f->private_data = vs;
 	return 0;
+
+err_init:
+	kfree(vqs);
+err_vqs:
+	vhost_scsi_free(vs);
+err_vs:
+	return r;
 }
 
 static int vhost_scsi_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *f)
@@ -1431,7 +1444,7 @@ static int vhost_scsi_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *f)
 	/* Jobs can re-queue themselves in evt kick handler. Do extra flush. */
 	vhost_scsi_flush(vs);
 	kfree(vs->dev.vqs);
-	kfree(vs);
+	vhost_scsi_free(vs);
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
MST
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