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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2022-03-08 12:47:22 +0300
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2022-03-08 17:30:17 +0300
commita8749a35c39903120ec421ef2525acc8e0daa55c (patch)
treea740fb2b8147430dafef1e70e7c0ebbe4c897f38
parent0564eeb71bbb0e1a566fb701f90155bef9e7a224 (diff)
downloadlinux-a8749a35c39903120ec421ef2525acc8e0daa55c.tar.xz
mm: vmalloc: introduce array allocation functions
Linux has dozens of occurrences of vmalloc(array_size()) and vzalloc(array_size()). Allow to simplify the code by providing vmalloc_array and vcalloc, as well as the underscored variants that let the caller specify the GFP flags. Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/vmalloc.h5
-rw-r--r--mm/util.c50
2 files changed, 55 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index 880227b9f044..d1bbd4fd50c5 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -159,6 +159,11 @@ void *__vmalloc_node(unsigned long size, unsigned long align, gfp_t gfp_mask,
int node, const void *caller) __alloc_size(1);
void *vmalloc_no_huge(unsigned long size) __alloc_size(1);
+extern void *__vmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags) __alloc_size(1, 2);
+extern void *vmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size) __alloc_size(1, 2);
+extern void *__vcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags) __alloc_size(1, 2);
+extern void *vcalloc(size_t n, size_t size) __alloc_size(1, 2);
+
extern void vfree(const void *addr);
extern void vfree_atomic(const void *addr);
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 7e43369064c8..94475abe54a0 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -647,6 +647,56 @@ void *kvrealloc(const void *p, size_t oldsize, size_t newsize, gfp_t flags)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvrealloc);
+/**
+ * __vmalloc_array - allocate memory for a virtually contiguous array.
+ * @n: number of elements.
+ * @size: element size.
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc).
+ */
+void *__vmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ size_t bytes;
+
+ if (unlikely(check_mul_overflow(n, size, &bytes)))
+ return NULL;
+ return __vmalloc(bytes, flags);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vmalloc_array);
+
+/**
+ * vmalloc_array - allocate memory for a virtually contiguous array.
+ * @n: number of elements.
+ * @size: element size.
+ */
+void *vmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size)
+{
+ return __vmalloc_array(n, size, GFP_KERNEL);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_array);
+
+/**
+ * __vcalloc - allocate and zero memory for a virtually contiguous array.
+ * @n: number of elements.
+ * @size: element size.
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc).
+ */
+void *__vcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ return __vmalloc_array(n, size, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vcalloc);
+
+/**
+ * vcalloc - allocate and zero memory for a virtually contiguous array.
+ * @n: number of elements.
+ * @size: element size.
+ */
+void *vcalloc(size_t n, size_t size)
+{
+ return __vmalloc_array(n, size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vcalloc);
+
/* Neutral page->mapping pointer to address_space or anon_vma or other */
void *page_rmapping(struct page *page)
{