mm: fix comment for NODEMASK_ALLOC

Currently, NODEMASK_ALLOC allocates a nodemask_t with kmalloc when
NODES_SHIFT is higher than 8, otherwise it declares it within the stack.

The comment says that the reasoning behind this, is that nodemask_t will
be 256 bytes when NODES_SHIFT is higher than 8, but this is not true.  For
example, NODES_SHIFT = 9 will give us a 64 bytes nodemask_t.  Let us fix
up the comment for that.

Another thing is that it might make sense to let values lower than
128bytes be allocated in the stack.  Although this all depends on the
depth of the stack (and this changes from function to function), I think
that 64 bytes is something we can easily afford.  So we could even bump
the limit by 1 (from > 8 to > 9).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180820085516.9687-1-osalvador@techadventures.net
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/nodemask.h b/include/linux/nodemask.h
index 1fbde8a880d9a08b43cf57373f134b306c136dd3..5a30ad594ccc11d40879ec8438b587f519b5c791 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/nodemask.h
+++ b/include/linux/nodemask.h
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ static inline int node_random(const nodemask_t *mask)
  * NODEMASK_ALLOC(type, name) allocates an object with a specified type and
  * name.
  */
-#if NODES_SHIFT > 8 /* nodemask_t > 256 bytes */
+#if NODES_SHIFT > 8 /* nodemask_t > 32 bytes */
 #define NODEMASK_ALLOC(type, name, gfp_flags)  \
                        type *name = kmalloc(sizeof(*name), gfp_flags)
 #define NODEMASK_FREE(m)                       kfree(m)