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Commit faada217 authored by Mikulas Patocka's avatar Mikulas Patocka
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dm persistent data: fix memory allocation failure



kmalloc is unreliable when allocating more than 8 pages of memory. It may
fail when there is plenty of free memory but the memory is fragmented.
Zdenek Kabelac observed such failure in his tests.

This commit changes kmalloc to kvmalloc - kvmalloc will fall back to
vmalloc if the large allocation fails.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reported-by: default avatarZdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
parent 86cfa9a8
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