On Sun, 2016-12-04 at 12:58 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-12-04 at 12:11 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Convert sizeof foo to sizeof(foo) and allocations with multiplications
> > to the appropriate kcalloc/kmalloc_array styles.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com>
> > ---
>
> Gah.
>
> This is one of the hotest NIC driver on linux at this moment,
> with XDP and other efforts going on.
>
> Some kmalloc() are becoming kmalloc_node() in some dev branches, and
> there is no kmalloc_array_node() yet.
Well that kmalloc_array_node, like this patch, is pretty trivial to add.
Something like the attached for kmalloc_array_node and kcalloc_node.
> This kind of patch is making rebases/backports very painful.
That's really not an issue for me.
> Could we wait ~6 months before doing such cleanup/changes please ?
This is certainly a trivial patch that could be
done at almost any time.
> If you believe a bug needs a fix, please send a patch to address it.
>
> Thanks.
No worries.
include/linux/slab.h | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 084b12bad198..d98c07713c03 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -647,6 +647,37 @@ static inline void *kzalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
return kmalloc_node(size, flags | __GFP_ZERO, node);
}
+/**
+ * kmalloc_array_node - allocate memory for an array
+ * from a particular memory node.
+ * @n: number of elements.
+ * @size: element size.
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc).
+ * @node: memory node from which to allocate
+ */
+static inline void *kmalloc_array_node(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags,
+ int node)
+{
+ if (size != 0 && n > SIZE_MAX / size)
+ return NULL;
+ if (__builtin_constant_p(n) && __builtin_constant_p(size))
+ return kmalloc_node(n * size, flags, node);
+ return __kmalloc_node(n * size, flags, node);
+}
+
+/**
+ * kcalloc_node - allocate memory for an array from a particular memory node.
+ * The memory is set to zero.
+ * @n: number of elements.
+ * @size: element size.
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc).
+ * @node: memory node from which to allocate
+ */
+static inline void *kcalloc_node(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
+{
+ return kmalloc_array_node(n, size, flags | __GFP_ZERO, node);
+}
+
unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *s);
void __init kmem_cache_init_late(void);
