[Devel] [PATCH rh7] kernel/sched: Use kvzalloc to allocate the array of ctl_tables.

[Andrey Ryabinin]

On a machine with a lot of cpus, the sd_alloc_entry() can
trigger a high order allocation, which is slow and may fail
if memory fragmentation is high. Use kvzalloc to fallback
0-order allocations if high-order isn't available.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin at virtuozzo.com>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 26f4959f9ab4..e572d2b14a7f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -6422,7 +6422,7 @@ static struct ctl_table sd_ctl_root[] = {
 static struct ctl_table *sd_alloc_ctl_entry(int n)
 {
 	struct ctl_table *entry =
-		kcalloc(n, sizeof(struct ctl_table), GFP_KERNEL);
+		kvzalloc(n * sizeof(struct ctl_table), GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	return entry;
 }
@@ -6444,7 +6444,7 @@ static void sd_free_ctl_entry(struct ctl_table **tablep)
 			kfree(entry->procname);
 	}
 
-	kfree(*tablep);
+	kvfree(*tablep);
 	*tablep = NULL;
 }
 
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