[PATCH 1/6] UBIFS: allocate dump buffer on demand

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 10:46:07 EDT 2011


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

Instead of using pre-allocated 'c->dbg->buf' buffer in
'dbg_dump_leb()', 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/debug.c |   15 +++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/debug.c b/fs/ubifs/debug.c
index 02c10dc..c2e5c08 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/debug.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/debug.c
@@ -810,16 +810,24 @@ void dbg_dump_leb(const struct ubifs_info *c, int lnum)
 {
 	struct ubifs_scan_leb *sleb;
 	struct ubifs_scan_node *snod;
+	void *buf;
 
 	if (dbg_failure_mode)
 		return;
 
 	printk(KERN_DEBUG "(pid %d) start dumping LEB %d\n",
 	       current->pid, lnum);
-	sleb = ubifs_scan(c, lnum, 0, c->dbg->buf, 0);
+
+	buf = __vmalloc(c->leb_size, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFS, PAGE_KERNEL);
+	if (!buf) {
+		ubifs_err("cannot allocate memory for dumping LEB %d", lnum);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	sleb = ubifs_scan(c, lnum, 0, buf, 0);
 	if (IS_ERR(sleb)) {
 		ubifs_err("scan error %d", (int)PTR_ERR(sleb));
-		return;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 	printk(KERN_DEBUG "LEB %d has %d nodes ending at %d\n", lnum,
@@ -835,6 +843,9 @@ void dbg_dump_leb(const struct ubifs_info *c, int lnum)
 	printk(KERN_DEBUG "(pid %d) finish dumping LEB %d\n",
 	       current->pid, lnum);
 	ubifs_scan_destroy(sleb);
+
+out:
+	vfree(buf);
 	return;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.2.3




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