From: Alexei Starovoitov <a...@fb.com> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 17:17:05 -0800
> under memory pressure 'ethtool -S' command may warn: > [ 2374.385195] ethtool: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x242c0c0 ... > ~1160 mlx5 counters ~= order 4 allocation which is unlikely to succeed > under memory pressure. Since 'get stats' command is not critical > avoid reclaim and warning. > Also convert to safer kmalloc_array. > > Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <a...@kernel.org> Let's just fix this right, just like in ethtool_get_regs(). Just use vzalloc() unconditionally. It is an entirely similar situation. But please be careful with the size calculations when you make this adjustment. Thank you.
