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H A Dsuper.cbc4e54f6 Mon May 08 17:57:37 CDT 2017 Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> drivers/md/bcache/super.c: use kvmalloc

bcache_device_init uses kmalloc for small requests and vmalloc for those
which are larger than 64 pages. This alone is a strange criterion.
Moreover kmalloc can fallback to vmalloc on the failure. Let's simply
use kvmalloc instead as it knows how to handle the fallback properly

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-5-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
bc4e54f6 Mon May 08 17:57:37 CDT 2017 Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> drivers/md/bcache/super.c: use kvmalloc

bcache_device_init uses kmalloc for small requests and vmalloc for those
which are larger than 64 pages. This alone is a strange criterion.
Moreover kmalloc can fallback to vmalloc on the failure. Let's simply
use kvmalloc instead as it knows how to handle the fallback properly

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-5-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>