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ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel
authorVasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Thu, 1 Jul 2021 01:57:12 +0000 (18:57 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 1 Jul 2021 18:06:07 +0000 (11:06 -0700)
commitb2e22abbf01d5743e5a8e9d2bd58a10f72da5e41
tree15cb33e272fc047763557e7a82710e576d632853
parentd45f0732e00e9f5c02ff7bd3cb3f8c2f92940e84
ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel

msg_queue and shmid_kernel are quite small objects, no need to use
kvmalloc for them.  mhocko@: "Both of them are 256B on most 64b systems."

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.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0d0b6c9b-8af3-29d8-34e2-a565c53780f3@virtuozzo.com
Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ipc/msg.c
ipc/shm.c