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Patch series "Align kvrealloc() with krealloc()", v2. Besides the obvious (and desired) difference between krealloc() and kvrealloc(), there is some inconsistency in their function signatures and behavior: - krealloc() frees the memory when the requested size is zero, whereas kvrealloc() simply returns a pointer to the existing allocation. - krealloc() behaves like kmalloc() if a NULL pointer is passed, whereas kvrealloc() does not accept a NULL pointer at all and, if passed, would fault instead. - krealloc() is self-contained, whereas kvrealloc() relies on the caller to provide the size of the previous allocation. Inconsistent behavior throughout allocation APIs is error prone, hence make kvrealloc() behave like krealloc(), which seems superior in all mentioned aspects. In order to be able to get rid of kvrealloc()'s oldsize parameter, introduce vrealloc() and make use of it in kvrealloc(). Making use of vrealloc() in kvrealloc() also provides oppertunities to grow (and shrink) allocations more efficiently. For instance, vrealloc() can be optimized to allocate and map additional pages to grow the allocation or unmap and free unused pages to shrink the allocation. Besides the above, those functions are required by Rust's allocator abstractons [1] (rework based on this series in [2]). With `Vec` or `KVec` respectively, potentially growing (and shrinking) data structures are rather common. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240704170738.3621-1-dakr@redhat.com/ [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dakr/linux.git/log/?h=rust/mm This patch (of 2): Implement vrealloc() analogous to krealloc(). Currently, krealloc() requires the caller to pass the size of the previous memory allocation, which, instead, should be self-contained. We attempt to fix this in a subsequent patch which, in order to do so, requires vrealloc(). Besides that, we need realloc() functions for kernel allocators in Rust too. With `Vec` or `KVec` respectively, potentially growing (and shrinking) data structures are rather common. [dakr@kernel.org: fix missing nommu implementation] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240725141227.13954-1-dakr@kernel.org [dakr@kernel.org: document concurrency restrictions] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240725125442.4957-1-dakr@kernel.org [dakr@kernel.org: consider spare memory for __GFP_ZERO] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240730185049.6244-3-dakr@kernel.org [dakr@kernel.org: properly document __GFP_ZERO behavior] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240730185049.6244-4-dakr@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240722163111.4766-1-dakr@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240722163111.4766-2-dakr@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com> Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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