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From:   Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mm: use kvzalloc for swap_info_struct allocation
To:     linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
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Date:   Mon, 5 Nov 2018 01:13:04 +0300
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commit a2468cc9bfdf ("swap: choose swap device according to numa node")
increased size of swap_info_struct up to 44 Kbytes, now it requires 4th order page.
Switch to kvzmalloc allows to avoid unexpected allocation failures.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
---
 mm/swapfile.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 644f746e167a..8688ae65ef58 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -2813,7 +2813,7 @@ static struct swap_info_struct *alloc_swap_info(void)
 	unsigned int type;
 	int i;
 
-	p = kzalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL);
+	p = kvzalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!p)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
@@ -2824,7 +2824,7 @@ static struct swap_info_struct *alloc_swap_info(void)
 	}
 	if (type >= MAX_SWAPFILES) {
 		spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
-		kfree(p);
+		kvfree(p);
 		return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
 	}
 	if (type >= nr_swapfiles) {
@@ -2838,7 +2838,7 @@ static struct swap_info_struct *alloc_swap_info(void)
 		smp_wmb();
 		nr_swapfiles++;
 	} else {
-		kfree(p);
+		kvfree(p);
 		p = swap_info[type];
 		/*
 		 * Do not memset this entry: a racing procfs swap_next()
-- 
2.17.1