On 03/05, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> Johannes,
> 
> On 2019/03/04 18:46, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> > Hi Damien,
> > 
> > On 04/03/2019 08:04, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> >> @@ -2765,9 +2765,11 @@ static int init_blkz_info(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, 
> >> int devi)
> >>    if (nr_sectors & (bdev_zone_sectors(bdev) - 1))
> >>            FDEV(devi).nr_blkz++;
> >>  
> >> -  FDEV(devi).blkz_type = f2fs_kmalloc(sbi, FDEV(devi).nr_blkz,
> >> -                                                          GFP_KERNEL);
> >> -  if (!FDEV(devi).blkz_type)
> >> +  FDEV(devi).blkz_seq = f2fs_kzalloc(sbi,
> >> +                                  BITS_TO_LONGS(FDEV(devi).nr_blkz)
> >> +                                  * sizeof(unsigned long),
> >> +                                  GFP_KERNEL);
> >> +  if (!FDEV(devi).blkz_seq)
> >>            return -ENOMEM;
> > 
> > Not so sure about F2FS internals, but there is a bitmap_zalloc() in the
> > normal kernel library.
> 
> Yes indeed... f2fs_kzalloc uses f2fs_kmalloc(__GFP_ZERO) and f2fs_kmalloc is
> basically kmalloc() or kvmalloc() but with error injection for tests. So I 
> used
> that instead of bitmap_zalloc() to preserve the error injection test.
> 
> Jaegeuk,
> 
> Which do you prefer ? The patch as it is or switching to bitmap_zalloc() ?
> Whichever is fine with me so I can send a v2 if you prefer bitmap_zalloc().

Hi Damien,

I think f2fs_kmalloc would be fine for fault injection tests. It seems it'd
better to write a clean-up patch which replaces all the bitmap allocations
in f2fs with single f2fs_bitmap_zalloc() at once.

I'll take a look at this.
Thanks,

> 
> Best regards.
> 
> -- 
> Damien Le Moal
> Western Digital Research


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