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authorstephen hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>2011-02-23 13:04:18 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-02-24 22:11:54 -0800
commit6373a9a286bdd955a76924cee88a2f8f784988b1 (patch)
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parent861d7f745f37506bbd90227e97b95baf2a5fac34 (diff)
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netem: use vmalloc for distribution table
The netem probability table can be large (up to 64K bytes) which may be too large to allocate in one contiguous chunk. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/sched')
-rw-r--r--net/sched/sch_netem.c22
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_netem.c b/net/sched/sch_netem.c
index d367783..86dad1e 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_netem.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_netem.c
@@ -308,6 +308,16 @@ static void netem_reset(struct Qdisc *sch)
qdisc_watchdog_cancel(&q->watchdog);
}
+static void dist_free(struct disttable *d)
+{
+ if (d) {
+ if (is_vmalloc_addr(d))
+ vfree(d);
+ else
+ kfree(d);
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Distribution data is a variable size payload containing
* signed 16 bit values.
@@ -315,16 +325,20 @@ static void netem_reset(struct Qdisc *sch)
static int get_dist_table(struct Qdisc *sch, const struct nlattr *attr)
{
struct netem_sched_data *q = qdisc_priv(sch);
- unsigned long n = nla_len(attr)/sizeof(__s16);
+ size_t n = nla_len(attr)/sizeof(__s16);
const __s16 *data = nla_data(attr);
spinlock_t *root_lock;
struct disttable *d;
int i;
+ size_t s;
if (n > 65536)
return -EINVAL;
- d = kmalloc(sizeof(*d) + n*sizeof(d->table[0]), GFP_KERNEL);
+ s = sizeof(struct disttable) + n * sizeof(s16);
+ d = kmalloc(s, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!d)
+ d = vmalloc(s);
if (!d)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -335,7 +349,7 @@ static int get_dist_table(struct Qdisc *sch, const struct nlattr *attr)
root_lock = qdisc_root_sleeping_lock(sch);
spin_lock_bh(root_lock);
- kfree(q->delay_dist);
+ dist_free(q->delay_dist);
q->delay_dist = d;
spin_unlock_bh(root_lock);
return 0;
@@ -556,7 +570,7 @@ static void netem_destroy(struct Qdisc *sch)
qdisc_watchdog_cancel(&q->watchdog);
qdisc_destroy(q->qdisc);
- kfree(q->delay_dist);
+ dist_free(q->delay_dist);
}
static int netem_dump(struct Qdisc *sch, struct sk_buff *skb)