cluster: RHEL54 - gfs-kernel: bz479421 - gfs_tool: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0xd0

cluster: RHEL54 - gfs-kernel: bz479421 - gfs_tool: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0xd0

[Abhijith Das]

Gitweb:        http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cluster.git?p=cluster.git;a=commitdiff;h=8547ed2364594bf75290a4690960c3ce7959d6a6
Commit:        8547ed2364594bf75290a4690960c3ce7959d6a6
Parent:        d97ab88191384c94cfa51840f6379fcc6ecaeb89
Author:        Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
AuthorDate:    Sun Jun 7 20:01:44 2009 -0500
Committer:     Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
CommitterDate: Sun Jun 7 20:09:21 2009 -0500

gfs-kernel: bz479421 - gfs_tool: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0xd0

This patch changes the allocation in gi_skeleton from kmalloc to vmalloc to allocate virtual memory.
---
 gfs-kernel/src/gfs/ioctl.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gfs-kernel/src/gfs/ioctl.c b/gfs-kernel/src/gfs/ioctl.c
index 32db45c..9a70a38 100644
--- a/gfs-kernel/src/gfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/gfs-kernel/src/gfs/ioctl.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <linux/buffer_head.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/compat.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 
 #include "gfs_ioctl.h"
 #include "gfs.h"
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ gi_skeleton(struct gfs_inode *ip, struct gfs_ioctl *gi,
 	if (size > gi->gi_size)
 		size = gi->gi_size;
 
-        buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+        buf = vmalloc(size);
         if (!buf)
                 return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -81,7 +82,7 @@ gi_skeleton(struct gfs_inode *ip, struct gfs_ioctl *gi,
 		error = count + 1;
 
  out:
-	kfree(buf);
+	vfree(buf);
 
 	return error;
 }