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commit 856eb0916d181da6d043cc33e03f54d5c5bbe54a upstream. The structure srcu_struct can be very big, its size is proportional to the value CONFIG_NR_CPUS. The Fedora kernel has CONFIG_NR_CPUS 8192, the field io_barrier in the struct mapped_device has 84kB in the debugging kernel and 50kB in the non-debugging kernel. The large size may result in failure of the function kzalloc_node. In order to avoid the allocation failure, we use the function kvzalloc_node, this function falls back to vmalloc if a large contiguous chunk of memory is not available. This patch also moves the field io_barrier to the last position of struct mapped_device - the reason is that on many processor architectures, short memory offsets result in smaller code than long memory offsets - on x86-64 it reduces code size by 320 bytes. Note to stable kernel maintainers - the kernels 4.11 and older don't have the function kvzalloc_node, you can use the function vzalloc_node instead. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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