dm: allocate struct mapped_device with kvzalloc

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>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
index be12f3f12e9d..adb874c2411b 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -1697,7 +1697,7 @@ static struct mapped_device *alloc_dev(int minor)
 	struct mapped_device *md;
 	void *old_md;
 
-	md = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*md), GFP_KERNEL, numa_node_id);
+	md = kvzalloc_node(sizeof(*md), GFP_KERNEL, numa_node_id);
 	if (!md) {
 		DMWARN("unable to allocate device, out of memory.");
 		return NULL;
@@ -1797,7 +1797,7 @@ bad_io_barrier:
 bad_minor:
 	module_put(THIS_MODULE);
 bad_module_get:
-	kfree(md);
+	kvfree(md);
 	return NULL;
 }
 
@@ -1816,7 +1816,7 @@ static void free_dev(struct mapped_device *md)
 	free_minor(minor);
 
 	module_put(THIS_MODULE);
-	kfree(md);
+	kvfree(md);
 }
 
 static void __bind_mempools(struct mapped_device *md, struct dm_table *t)