Skip to content
Commit bc8136a5 authored by Vasily Averin's avatar Vasily Averin Committed by Linus Torvalds
Browse files

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: default avatarAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRoman 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent fc37a3b8
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment