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Commit 6b839b3b authored by Douglas Anderson's avatar Douglas Anderson Committed by Andrew Morton
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regset: use kvzalloc() for regset_get_alloc()

While browsing through ChromeOS crash reports, I found one with an
allocation failure that looked like this:

  chrome: page allocation failure: order:7,
          mode:0x40dc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO),
	  nodemask=(null),cpuset=urgent,mems_allowed=0
  CPU: 7 PID: 3295 Comm: chrome Not tainted
          5.15.133-20574-g8044615ac35c #1 (HASH:1162 1)
  Hardware name: Google Lazor (rev3 - 8) with KB Backlight (DT)
  Call trace:
  ...
  warn_alloc+0x104/0x174
  __alloc_pages+0x5f0/0x6e4
  kmalloc_order+0x44/0x98
  kmalloc_order_trace+0x34/0x124
  __kmalloc+0x228/0x36c
  __regset_get+0x68/0xcc
  regset_get_alloc+0x1c/0x28
  elf_core_dump+0x3d8/0xd8c
  do_coredump+0xeb8/0x1378
  get_signal+0x14c/0x804
  ...

An order 7 allocation is (1 << 7) contiguous pages, or 512K. It's not
a surprise that this allocation failed on a system that's been running
for a while.

More digging showed that it was fairly easy to see the order 7
allocation by just sending a SIGQUI...
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