Re: [PATCH] blkdev_report_zones_ioctl(): Use vmalloc() to allocate large buffers

On 5/22/18 9:27 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:

Avoid that complaints similar to the following appear in the kernel log if the number of zones is sufficiently large:

fio: page allocation failure: order:9, mode:0x140c0c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null) Call Trace: dump_stack+0x63/0x88 warn_alloc+0xf5/0x190 __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x8f0/0xb0d __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x242/0x260 alloc_pages_current+0x6a/0xb0 kmalloc_order+0x18/0x50 kmalloc_order_trace+0x26/0xb0 __kmalloc+0x20e/0x220 blkdev_report_zones_ioctl+0xa5/0x1a0 blkdev_ioctl+0x1ba/0x930 block_ioctl+0x41/0x50 do_vfs_ioctl+0xaa/0x610 SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90 do_syscall_64+0x79/0x1b0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2

Applied, thanks.