On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 14:24 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> There are eleventy billion places where we do the open coded
> kmalloc-or-vmalloc thing. Sigh. Perhaps it is time to add a helper
> function which does this, so that all such callers use
> __GFP_NO_OOM_KILL.
That would go along nicely with kvfree() in mm/util.c
void kvfree(const void *addr)
{
if (is_vmalloc_addr(addr))
vfree(addr);
else
kfree(addr);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvfree);
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