[PATCH 5/6] UBIFS: allocate orphans scan buffer on demand

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 10:46:11 EDT 2011


From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com>

Instead of using pre-allocated 'c->dbg->buf' buffer in
'dbg_scan_orphans()', dynamically allocate it when needed. The intend
is to get rid of the pre-allocated 'c->dbg->buf' buffer and save
128KiB of RAM (or more if PEB size is larger). Indeed, currently we
allocate this memory even if the user never enables any self-check,
which is wasteful.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com>
---
 fs/ubifs/orphan.c |   10 +++++++++-
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/orphan.c b/fs/ubifs/orphan.c
index 82009c7..2cdbd31 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/orphan.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/orphan.c
@@ -892,15 +892,22 @@ static int dbg_read_orphans(struct check_info *ci, struct ubifs_scan_leb *sleb)
 static int dbg_scan_orphans(struct ubifs_info *c, struct check_info *ci)
 {
 	int lnum, err = 0;
+	void *buf;
 
 	/* Check no-orphans flag and skip this if no orphans */
 	if (c->no_orphs)
 		return 0;
 
+	buf = __vmalloc(c->leb_size, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFS, PAGE_KERNEL);
+	if (!buf) {
+		ubifs_err("cannot allocate memory to check orphans");
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	for (lnum = c->orph_first; lnum <= c->orph_last; lnum++) {
 		struct ubifs_scan_leb *sleb;
 
-		sleb = ubifs_scan(c, lnum, 0, c->dbg->buf, 0);
+		sleb = ubifs_scan(c, lnum, 0, buf, 0);
 		if (IS_ERR(sleb)) {
 			err = PTR_ERR(sleb);
 			break;
@@ -912,6 +919,7 @@ static int dbg_scan_orphans(struct ubifs_info *c, struct check_info *ci)
 			break;
 	}
 
+	vfree(buf);
 	return err;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.2.3




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