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From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Date:   Mon, 26 Apr 2021 09:23:26 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel
To:     Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Cgroups <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 3:18 AM Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>
> msg_queue and shmid_kernel are quite small objects, no need to use
> kvmalloc for them.
> Previously these objects was allocated via ipc_alloc/ipc_rcu_alloc(),
> common function for several ipc objects. It had kvmalloc call inside().
> Later, this function went away and was finally replaced by direct
> kvmalloc call, and now we can use more suitable kmalloc/kfree for them.
>
> Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>