Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932584AbbGGPJ0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jul 2015 11:09:26 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55380 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932343AbbGGPI6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jul 2015 11:08:58 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 11:08:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikulas Patocka X-X-Sender: mpatocka@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com To: Mike Snitzer cc: "Alasdair G. Kergon" , Edward Thornber , Andrew Morton , David Rientjes , Vivek Goyal , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, dm-devel@redhat.com Subject: [PATCH 0/7] mm: reliable memory allocation with kvmalloc Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LRH 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 605 Lines: 13 This patchset introduces function kvmalloc and kvmalloc_node. These functions allow reliable allocation of objects of arbitrary size. They attempt to do allocation with kmalloc and if it fails, use vmalloc. Memory allocated with these functions should be freed with kvfree. The patchset makes modification to device mapper to use these functions. Mikulas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/