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authorDanilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>2024-07-22 18:29:24 +0200
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2024-09-01 20:25:44 -0700
commit590b9d576caec6b4c46bba49ed36223a399c3fc5 (patch)
treee414a82b4e1269c07d3e9033dee7ab4d2a7d99d8 /include
parentmm: vmalloc: implement vrealloc() (diff)
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mm: kvmalloc: align kvrealloc() with krealloc()
Besides the obvious (and desired) difference between krealloc() and kvrealloc(), there is some inconsistency in their function signatures and behavior: - krealloc() frees the memory when the requested size is zero, whereas kvrealloc() simply returns a pointer to the existing allocation. - krealloc() behaves like kmalloc() if a NULL pointer is passed, whereas kvrealloc() does not accept a NULL pointer at all and, if passed, would fault instead. - krealloc() is self-contained, whereas kvrealloc() relies on the caller to provide the size of the previous allocation. Inconsistent behavior throughout allocation APIs is error prone, hence make kvrealloc() behave like krealloc(), which seems superior in all mentioned aspects. Besides that, implementing kvrealloc() by making use of krealloc() and vrealloc() provides oppertunities to grow (and shrink) allocations more efficiently. For instance, vrealloc() can be optimized to allocate and map additional pages to grow the allocation or unmap and free unused pages to shrink the allocation. [dakr@kernel.org: document concurrency restrictions] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240725125442.4957-1-dakr@kernel.org [dakr@kernel.org: disable KASAN when switching to vmalloc] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240730185049.6244-2-dakr@kernel.org [dakr@kernel.org: properly document __GFP_ZERO behavior] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240730185049.6244-5-dakr@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240722163111.4766-3-dakr@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com> Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/slab.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index eb2bf4629157..c9cb42203183 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -841,8 +841,8 @@ kvmalloc_array_node_noprof(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
#define kvcalloc_node(...) alloc_hooks(kvcalloc_node_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))
#define kvcalloc(...) alloc_hooks(kvcalloc_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))
-extern void *kvrealloc_noprof(const void *p, size_t oldsize, size_t newsize, gfp_t flags)
- __realloc_size(3);
+void *kvrealloc_noprof(const void *p, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+ __realloc_size(2);
#define kvrealloc(...) alloc_hooks(kvrealloc_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))
extern void kvfree(const void *addr);