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From:   Amit Kucheria <amitk@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:35:02 +0530
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal: sysfs: fall back to vzalloc for cooling device's statistics
To:     Yue Hu <zbestahu@gmail.com>
Cc:     Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
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On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 12:00 PM Yue Hu <zbestahu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Yue Hu <huyue2@yulong.com>
>
> We observed warning about kzalloc() when register thermal cooling device
> in backlight_device_register(). backlight display can be a cooling device
> since reducing screen brightness will can help reduce temperature.
>
> However, ->get_max_state of backlight will assign max brightness of 1024
> to states. The memory size can be getting 1MB+ due to states * states.
> That is so large to trigger kmalloc() warning.
>
> So, let's remove it and try vzalloc() if kzalloc() fails.

If we can do with vzalloc()'ed memory i.e. we don't need contiguous
physical memory, why even attempt kzalloc?

>
> Signed-off-by: Yue Hu <huyue2@yulong.com>
> ---
>  drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> index aa99edb..9bae0b6 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
>  #include <linux/device.h>
>  #include <linux/err.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
> +#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> +#include <linux/mm.h>
>  #include <linux/string.h>
>  #include <linux/jiffies.h>
>
> @@ -919,7 +921,9 @@ static void cooling_device_stats_setup(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev)
>         var += sizeof(*stats->time_in_state) * states;
>         var += sizeof(*stats->trans_table) * states * states;
>
> -       stats = kzalloc(var, GFP_KERNEL);
> +       stats = kzalloc(var, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
> +       if (!stats)
> +               stats = vzalloc(var);
>         if (!stats)
>                 return;
>
> @@ -938,7 +942,7 @@ static void cooling_device_stats_setup(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev)
>
>  static void cooling_device_stats_destroy(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev)
>  {
> -       kfree(cdev->stats);
> +       kvfree(cdev->stats);
>         cdev->stats = NULL;
>  }
>
> --
> 1.9.1
>