[PATCH 5.10 004/102] drm/virtio: use kvmalloc for large allocations

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Mar 05 2021 - 07:29:00 EST


From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit ea86f3defd55f141a44146e66cbf8ffb683d60da upstream.

We observed that some of virtio_gpu_object_shmem_init() allocations
can be rather costly - order 6 - which can be difficult to fulfill
under memory pressure conditions. Switch to kvmalloc_array() in
virtio_gpu_object_shmem_init() and let the kernel vmalloc the entries
array.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20201105014744.1662226-1-senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Doug Horn <doughorn@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_object.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_object.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_object.c
@@ -172,8 +172,9 @@ static int virtio_gpu_object_shmem_init(
*nents = shmem->pages->orig_nents;
}

- *ents = kmalloc_array(*nents, sizeof(struct virtio_gpu_mem_entry),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ *ents = kvmalloc_array(*nents,
+ sizeof(struct virtio_gpu_mem_entry),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!(*ents)) {
DRM_ERROR("failed to allocate ent list\n");
return -ENOMEM;