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    vfs: use kmalloc() to allocate fdmem if possible · a892e2d7
    Changli Gao authored
    
    
    Use kmalloc() to allocate fdmem if possible.
    
    vmalloc() is used as a fallback solution for fdmem allocation.  A new
    helper function __free_fdtable() is introduced to reduce the lines of
    code.
    
    A potential bug, vfree() a memory allocated by kmalloc(), is fixed.
    
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use __GFP_NOWARN, uninline alloc_fdmem() and free_fdmem()]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChangli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
    Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
    Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
    Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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