Linux has dozens of occurrences of vmalloc(array_size()) and vzalloc(array_size()). Allow to simplify the code by providing vmalloc_array and vcalloc, as well as the underscored variants that let the caller specify the GFP flags.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com --- include/linux/vmalloc.h | 5 +++++ mm/util.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h index 880227b9f044..d1bbd4fd50c5 100644 --- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h +++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h @@ -159,6 +159,11 @@ void *__vmalloc_node(unsigned long size, unsigned long align, gfp_t gfp_mask, int node, const void *caller) __alloc_size(1); void *vmalloc_no_huge(unsigned long size) __alloc_size(1);
+extern void *__vmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags) __alloc_size(1, 2); +extern void *vmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size) __alloc_size(1, 2); +extern void *__vcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags) __alloc_size(1, 2); +extern void *vcalloc(size_t n, size_t size) __alloc_size(1, 2); + extern void vfree(const void *addr); extern void vfree_atomic(const void *addr);
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 7e43369064c8..94475abe54a0 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -647,6 +647,56 @@ void *kvrealloc(const void *p, size_t oldsize, size_t newsize, gfp_t flags) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvrealloc);
+/** + * __vmalloc_array - allocate memory for a virtually contiguous array. + * @n: number of elements. + * @size: element size. + * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc). + */ +void *__vmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags) +{ + size_t bytes; + + if (unlikely(check_mul_overflow(n, size, &bytes))) + return NULL; + return __vmalloc(bytes, flags); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vmalloc_array); + +/** + * vmalloc_array - allocate memory for a virtually contiguous array. + * @n: number of elements. + * @size: element size. + */ +void *vmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size) +{ + return __vmalloc_array(n, size, GFP_KERNEL); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_array); + +/** + * __vcalloc - allocate and zero memory for a virtually contiguous array. + * @n: number of elements. + * @size: element size. + * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc). + */ +void *__vcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags) +{ + return __vmalloc_array(n, size, flags | __GFP_ZERO); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vcalloc); + +/** + * vcalloc - allocate and zero memory for a virtually contiguous array. + * @n: number of elements. + * @size: element size. + */ +void *vcalloc(size_t n, size_t size) +{ + return __vmalloc_array(n, size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vcalloc); + /* Neutral page->mapping pointer to address_space or anon_vma or other */ void *page_rmapping(struct page *page) {