Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] lib/raid6: use kvmalloc() in raid6_select_algo()
Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.kernel.mm,gmane.linux.raid |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 10:34:24AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > /* prepare the buffer and fill it circularly with gfmul table */ > - disk_ptr = (char *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, RAID6_TEST_DISKS_ORDER); > + disk_ptr = kvmalloc(PAGE_SIZE * RAID6_TEST_DISKS, GFP_KERNEL); This changes to vmalloc for no good reason. It also doesn't use the _array version for overflow-safe multiplying (not that it matters much here..)