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mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers

Message ID 20170102133700.1734-1-mhocko@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
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Michal Hocko Jan. 2, 2017, 1:37 p.m. UTC
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Using kmalloc with the vmalloc fallback for larger allocations is a
common pattern in the kernel code. Yet we do not have any common helper
for that and so users have invented their own helpers. Some of them are
really creative when doing so. Let's just add kv[mz]alloc and make sure
it is implemented properly. This implementation makes sure to not make
a large memory pressure for > PAGE_SZE requests (__GFP_NORETRY) and also
to not warn about allocation failures. This also rules out the OOM
killer as the vmalloc is a more approapriate fallback than a disruptive
user visible action.

This patch also changes some existing users and removes helpers which
are specific for them. In some cases this is not possible (e.g.
ext4_kvmalloc, libcfs_kvzalloc, __aa_kvmalloc) because those seems to be
broken and require GFP_NO{FS,IO} context which is not vmalloc compatible
in general (note that the page table allocation is GFP_KERNEL). Those
need to be fixed separately.

apparmor has already claimed kv[mz]alloc so remove those and use
__aa_kvmalloc instead to prevent from the naming clashes.

Changes since v1
- define __vmalloc_node_flags for CONFIG_MMU=n

Cc: Anatoly Stepanov <astepanov@cloudlinux.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> # ext4 part
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
---
Hi,
I've sent this as an RFC [1] and there were no major objections. There
is a follow up work to be done, namely check the current users of
GPF_NOFS vmalloc fallback users but that needs to be done separately.  I
strongly suggest not pulling any nofs logic into vmalloc directly but
that is a separate topic that is not directly related to this patch. The
chosen approach is triggering a warning when GFP_KERNEL incompatible flags
are used for kv[zm]alloc* function for easier debugging.

Can we have this merged?

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161208103300.23217-1-mhocko@kernel.org

 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c                 |  4 ++--
 arch/x86/kvm/page_track.c            |  4 ++--
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                   |  4 ++--
 drivers/md/dm-stats.c                |  7 +------
 drivers/vhost/vhost.c                | 15 +++-----------
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c                    |  2 +-
 fs/ext4/super.c                      |  4 ++--
 fs/f2fs/f2fs.h                       | 20 ------------------
 fs/f2fs/file.c                       |  4 ++--
 fs/f2fs/segment.c                    | 14 ++++++-------
 fs/seq_file.c                        | 16 +--------------
 include/linux/kvm_host.h             |  2 --
 include/linux/mm.h                   | 14 +++++++++++++
 include/linux/vmalloc.h              |  1 +
 mm/nommu.c                           |  5 +++++
 mm/util.c                            | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 mm/vmalloc.c                         |  2 +-
 security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c       |  2 +-
 security/apparmor/include/apparmor.h | 10 ---------
 security/apparmor/match.c            |  2 +-
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c                  | 18 +++-------------
 21 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)

Comments

Joe Perches Jan. 2, 2017, 3:55 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, 2017-01-02 at 14:37 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> 
> Using kmalloc with the vmalloc fallback for larger allocations is a
> common pattern in the kernel code. Yet we do not have any common helper
> for that and so users have invented their own helpers. Some of them are
> really creative when doing so. Let's just add kv[mz]alloc and make sure
> it is implemented properly. This implementation makes sure to not make
> a large memory pressure for > PAGE_SZE requests (__GFP_NORETRY) and also
> to not warn about allocation failures. This also rules out the OOM
> killer as the vmalloc is a more approapriate fallback than a disruptive
> user visible action.
> 
> This patch also changes some existing users and removes helpers which
> are specific for them. In some cases this is not possible (e.g.
> ext4_kvmalloc, libcfs_kvzalloc, __aa_kvmalloc) because those seems to be
> broken and require GFP_NO{FS,IO} context which is not vmalloc compatible
> in general (note that the page table allocation is GFP_KERNEL). Those
> need to be fixed separately.
> 
> apparmor has already claimed kv[mz]alloc so remove those and use
> __aa_kvmalloc instead to prevent from the naming clashes.

I have no real objection but perhaps this would
be better done as 3 or more patches

o rename apparmor uses
o introduce generic
o conversions to generic

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Michal Hocko Jan. 2, 2017, 4:02 p.m. UTC | #2
On Mon 02-01-17 07:55:22, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-01-02 at 14:37 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> > 
> > Using kmalloc with the vmalloc fallback for larger allocations is a
> > common pattern in the kernel code. Yet we do not have any common helper
> > for that and so users have invented their own helpers. Some of them are
> > really creative when doing so. Let's just add kv[mz]alloc and make sure
> > it is implemented properly. This implementation makes sure to not make
> > a large memory pressure for > PAGE_SZE requests (__GFP_NORETRY) and also
> > to not warn about allocation failures. This also rules out the OOM
> > killer as the vmalloc is a more approapriate fallback than a disruptive
> > user visible action.
> > 
> > This patch also changes some existing users and removes helpers which
> > are specific for them. In some cases this is not possible (e.g.
> > ext4_kvmalloc, libcfs_kvzalloc, __aa_kvmalloc) because those seems to be
> > broken and require GFP_NO{FS,IO} context which is not vmalloc compatible
> > in general (note that the page table allocation is GFP_KERNEL). Those
> > need to be fixed separately.
> > 
> > apparmor has already claimed kv[mz]alloc so remove those and use
> > __aa_kvmalloc instead to prevent from the naming clashes.
> 
> I have no real objection but perhaps this would
> be better done as 3 or more patches
> 
> o rename apparmor uses
> o introduce generic
> o conversions to generic

Whatever maintainers of the respective code prefer. I usually prefer to
have newly introduced functions along with their users so that it is
clear how they are used. The patch doesn't seem to be too large
either...
Vlastimil Babka Jan. 3, 2017, 10:23 a.m. UTC | #3
On 01/02/2017 02:37 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
>
> Using kmalloc with the vmalloc fallback for larger allocations is a
> common pattern in the kernel code. Yet we do not have any common helper
> for that and so users have invented their own helpers. Some of them are
> really creative when doing so. Let's just add kv[mz]alloc and make sure
> it is implemented properly. This implementation makes sure to not make
> a large memory pressure for > PAGE_SZE requests (__GFP_NORETRY) and also
> to not warn about allocation failures. This also rules out the OOM
> killer as the vmalloc is a more approapriate fallback than a disruptive
> user visible action.
>
> This patch also changes some existing users and removes helpers which
> are specific for them. In some cases this is not possible (e.g.
> ext4_kvmalloc, libcfs_kvzalloc, __aa_kvmalloc) because those seems to be
> broken and require GFP_NO{FS,IO} context which is not vmalloc compatible
> in general (note that the page table allocation is GFP_KERNEL). Those
> need to be fixed separately.
>
> apparmor has already claimed kv[mz]alloc so remove those and use
> __aa_kvmalloc instead to prevent from the naming clashes.
>
> Changes since v1
> - define __vmalloc_node_flags for CONFIG_MMU=n
>
> Cc: Anatoly Stepanov <astepanov@cloudlinux.com>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> # ext4 part
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
(but with a small fix and suggestion below)

> --- a/mm/util.c
> +++ b/mm/util.c
> @@ -346,6 +346,46 @@ unsigned long vm_mmap(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_mmap);
>
> +/**
> + * kvmalloc_node - allocate contiguous memory from SLAB with vmalloc fallback
> + * @size: size of the request.
> + * @flags: gfp mask for the allocation - must be compatible with GFP_KERNEL.
> + * @node: numa node to allocate from
> + *
> + * Uses kmalloc to get the memory but if the allocation fails then falls back
> + * to the vmalloc allocator. Use kvfree for freeing the memory.
> + */
> +void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
> +{
> +	gfp_t kmalloc_flags = flags;
> +	void *ret;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * vmalloc uses GFP_KERNEL for some internal allocations (e.g page tables)
> +	 * so the given set of flags has to be compatible.
> +	 */
> +	WARN_ON((flags & GFP_KERNEL) != GFP_KERNEL);

Wouldn't a _ONCE be sufficient? It's unlikely that multiple wrong call sites 
appear out of the blue, but we don't want to flood the log from a single 
frequently called site. No strong feelings though.

> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Make sure that larger requests are not too disruptive - no OOM
> +	 * killer and no allocation failure warnings as we have a fallback
> +	 */
> +	if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
> +		kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN;
> +
> +	ret = kmalloc_node(size, kmalloc_flags, node);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * It doesn't really make sense to fallback to vmalloc for sub page
> +	 * requests
> +	 */
> +	if (ret || size < PAGE_SIZE)

This should be size <= PAGE_SIZE.

> +		return ret;
> +
> +	return __vmalloc_node_flags(size, node, flags);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvmalloc_node);
> +
>  void kvfree(const void *addr)
>  {
>  	if (is_vmalloc_addr(addr))

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Michal Hocko Jan. 3, 2017, 10:33 a.m. UTC | #4
On Tue 03-01-17 11:23:04, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 01/02/2017 02:37 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> > 
> > Using kmalloc with the vmalloc fallback for larger allocations is a
> > common pattern in the kernel code. Yet we do not have any common helper
> > for that and so users have invented their own helpers. Some of them are
> > really creative when doing so. Let's just add kv[mz]alloc and make sure
> > it is implemented properly. This implementation makes sure to not make
> > a large memory pressure for > PAGE_SZE requests (__GFP_NORETRY) and also
> > to not warn about allocation failures. This also rules out the OOM
> > killer as the vmalloc is a more approapriate fallback than a disruptive
> > user visible action.
> > 
> > This patch also changes some existing users and removes helpers which
> > are specific for them. In some cases this is not possible (e.g.
> > ext4_kvmalloc, libcfs_kvzalloc, __aa_kvmalloc) because those seems to be
> > broken and require GFP_NO{FS,IO} context which is not vmalloc compatible
> > in general (note that the page table allocation is GFP_KERNEL). Those
> > need to be fixed separately.
> > 
> > apparmor has already claimed kv[mz]alloc so remove those and use
> > __aa_kvmalloc instead to prevent from the naming clashes.
> > 
> > Changes since v1
> > - define __vmalloc_node_flags for CONFIG_MMU=n
> > 
> > Cc: Anatoly Stepanov <astepanov@cloudlinux.com>
> > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
> > Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> > Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
> > Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> # ext4 part
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> (but with a small fix and suggestion below)

Thanks!

> 
> > --- a/mm/util.c
> > +++ b/mm/util.c
> > @@ -346,6 +346,46 @@ unsigned long vm_mmap(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_mmap);
> > 
> > +/**
> > + * kvmalloc_node - allocate contiguous memory from SLAB with vmalloc fallback
> > + * @size: size of the request.
> > + * @flags: gfp mask for the allocation - must be compatible with GFP_KERNEL.
> > + * @node: numa node to allocate from
> > + *
> > + * Uses kmalloc to get the memory but if the allocation fails then falls back
> > + * to the vmalloc allocator. Use kvfree for freeing the memory.
> > + */
> > +void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
> > +{
> > +	gfp_t kmalloc_flags = flags;
> > +	void *ret;
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * vmalloc uses GFP_KERNEL for some internal allocations (e.g page tables)
> > +	 * so the given set of flags has to be compatible.
> > +	 */
> > +	WARN_ON((flags & GFP_KERNEL) != GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> Wouldn't a _ONCE be sufficient? It's unlikely that multiple wrong call sites
> appear out of the blue, but we don't want to flood the log from a single
> frequently called site. No strong feelings though.

Fair enough, I will make it WARN_ON_ONCE. I wish WARN_ON_ONCE would be
more clever, though. We can lose information about different call sites.
I was thinking about how to deal with it and I stackdepot sounds like it
could help here. But this is off-topic...

> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Make sure that larger requests are not too disruptive - no OOM
> > +	 * killer and no allocation failure warnings as we have a fallback
> > +	 */
> > +	if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
> > +		kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN;
> > +
> > +	ret = kmalloc_node(size, kmalloc_flags, node);
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * It doesn't really make sense to fallback to vmalloc for sub page
> > +	 * requests
> > +	 */
> > +	if (ret || size < PAGE_SIZE)
> 
> This should be size <= PAGE_SIZE.

You are right of course!
Vlastimil Babka Jan. 6, 2017, 1:29 p.m. UTC | #5
On 01/02/2017 02:37 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> @@ -514,18 +514,9 @@ long vhost_dev_set_owner(struct vhost_dev *dev)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_dev_set_owner);
>  
> -static void *vhost_kvzalloc(unsigned long size)
> -{
> -	void *n = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_REPEAT);

Hi, I just noticed that this had __GFP_REPEAT, so you'll probably want
to move these hunks to patch 3 with the rest of vhost.

> -
> -	if (!n)
> -		n = vzalloc(size);
> -	return n;
> -}
> -
>  struct vhost_umem *vhost_dev_reset_owner_prepare(void)
>  {
> -	return vhost_kvzalloc(sizeof(struct vhost_umem));
> +	return kvzalloc(sizeof(struct vhost_umem), GFP_KERNEL);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_dev_reset_owner_prepare);
>  
> @@ -1189,7 +1180,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_vq_access_ok);
>  
>  static struct vhost_umem *vhost_umem_alloc(void)
>  {
> -	struct vhost_umem *umem = vhost_kvzalloc(sizeof(*umem));
> +	struct vhost_umem *umem = kvzalloc(sizeof(*umem), GFP_KERNEL);
>  
>  	if (!umem)
>  		return NULL;
> @@ -1215,7 +1206,7 @@ static long vhost_set_memory(struct vhost_dev *d, struct vhost_memory __user *m)
>  		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>  	if (mem.nregions > max_mem_regions)
>  		return -E2BIG;
> -	newmem = vhost_kvzalloc(size + mem.nregions * sizeof(*m->regions));
> +	newmem = kvzalloc(size + mem.nregions * sizeof(*m->regions), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!newmem)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> index 7ae43c59bc79..bb49409172d9 100644

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Michal Hocko Jan. 6, 2017, 1:34 p.m. UTC | #6
On Fri 06-01-17 14:29:33, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 01/02/2017 02:37 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > @@ -514,18 +514,9 @@ long vhost_dev_set_owner(struct vhost_dev *dev)
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_dev_set_owner);
> >  
> > -static void *vhost_kvzalloc(unsigned long size)
> > -{
> > -	void *n = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_REPEAT);
> 
> Hi, I just noticed that this had __GFP_REPEAT, so you'll probably want
> to move these hunks to patch 3 with the rest of vhost.

Well, spotted. I will do that. Thanks!
diff mbox

Patch

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
index 34a66b2d47e6..285a84288dea 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -167,8 +167,8 @@  static void recalculate_apic_map(struct kvm *kvm)
 		if (kvm_apic_present(vcpu))
 			max_id = max(max_id, kvm_apic_id(vcpu->arch.apic));
 
-	new = kvm_kvzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_apic_map) +
-	                   sizeof(struct kvm_lapic *) * ((u64)max_id + 1));
+	new = kvzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_apic_map) +
+	                   sizeof(struct kvm_lapic *) * ((u64)max_id + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	if (!new)
 		goto out;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/page_track.c b/arch/x86/kvm/page_track.c
index 4a1c13eaa518..d46663e655b0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/page_track.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/page_track.c
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@  int kvm_page_track_create_memslot(struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
 	int  i;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < KVM_PAGE_TRACK_MAX; i++) {
-		slot->arch.gfn_track[i] = kvm_kvzalloc(npages *
-					    sizeof(*slot->arch.gfn_track[i]));
+		slot->arch.gfn_track[i] = kvzalloc(npages *
+					    sizeof(*slot->arch.gfn_track[i]), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!slot->arch.gfn_track[i])
 			goto track_free;
 	}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 1f0d2383f5ee..ab4d4b8f00d6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -8064,13 +8064,13 @@  int kvm_arch_create_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
 				      slot->base_gfn, level) + 1;
 
 		slot->arch.rmap[i] =
-			kvm_kvzalloc(lpages * sizeof(*slot->arch.rmap[i]));
+			kvzalloc(lpages * sizeof(*slot->arch.rmap[i]), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!slot->arch.rmap[i])
 			goto out_free;
 		if (i == 0)
 			continue;
 
-		linfo = kvm_kvzalloc(lpages * sizeof(*linfo));
+		linfo = kvzalloc(lpages * sizeof(*linfo), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!linfo)
 			goto out_free;
 
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-stats.c b/drivers/md/dm-stats.c
index 38b05f23b96c..674f9a1686f7 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-stats.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-stats.c
@@ -146,12 +146,7 @@  static void *dm_kvzalloc(size_t alloc_size, int node)
 	if (!claim_shared_memory(alloc_size))
 		return NULL;
 
-	if (alloc_size <= KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE) {
-		p = kzalloc_node(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN, node);
-		if (p)
-			return p;
-	}
-	p = vzalloc_node(alloc_size, node);
+	p = kvzalloc_node(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC, node);
 	if (p)
 		return p;
 
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index 28e2aebefd8f..08aa087840f9 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -514,18 +514,9 @@  long vhost_dev_set_owner(struct vhost_dev *dev)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_dev_set_owner);
 
-static void *vhost_kvzalloc(unsigned long size)
-{
-	void *n = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_REPEAT);
-
-	if (!n)
-		n = vzalloc(size);
-	return n;
-}
-
 struct vhost_umem *vhost_dev_reset_owner_prepare(void)
 {
-	return vhost_kvzalloc(sizeof(struct vhost_umem));
+	return kvzalloc(sizeof(struct vhost_umem), GFP_KERNEL);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_dev_reset_owner_prepare);
 
@@ -1189,7 +1180,7 @@  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_vq_access_ok);
 
 static struct vhost_umem *vhost_umem_alloc(void)
 {
-	struct vhost_umem *umem = vhost_kvzalloc(sizeof(*umem));
+	struct vhost_umem *umem = kvzalloc(sizeof(*umem), GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	if (!umem)
 		return NULL;
@@ -1215,7 +1206,7 @@  static long vhost_set_memory(struct vhost_dev *d, struct vhost_memory __user *m)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	if (mem.nregions > max_mem_regions)
 		return -E2BIG;
-	newmem = vhost_kvzalloc(size + mem.nregions * sizeof(*m->regions));
+	newmem = kvzalloc(size + mem.nregions * sizeof(*m->regions), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!newmem)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 7ae43c59bc79..bb49409172d9 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -2381,7 +2381,7 @@  int ext4_mb_alloc_groupinfo(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t ngroups)
 		return 0;
 
 	size = roundup_pow_of_two(sizeof(*sbi->s_group_info) * size);
-	new_groupinfo = ext4_kvzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	new_groupinfo = kvzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!new_groupinfo) {
 		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "can't allocate buddy meta group");
 		return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 63a6b6332682..1a81c77f0ea4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2116,7 +2116,7 @@  int ext4_alloc_flex_bg_array(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t ngroup)
 		return 0;
 
 	size = roundup_pow_of_two(size * sizeof(struct flex_groups));
-	new_groups = ext4_kvzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	new_groups = kvzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!new_groups) {
 		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "not enough memory for %d flex groups",
 			 size / (int) sizeof(struct flex_groups));
@@ -3850,7 +3850,7 @@  static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 			goto failed_mount;
 		}
 	}
-	sbi->s_group_desc = ext4_kvmalloc(db_count *
+	sbi->s_group_desc = kvmalloc(db_count *
 					  sizeof(struct buffer_head *),
 					  GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (sbi->s_group_desc == NULL) {
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
index 2da8c3aa0ce5..4130df0a8e64 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
@@ -1929,26 +1929,6 @@  static inline void *f2fs_kmalloc(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
 	return kmalloc(size, flags);
 }
 
-static inline void *f2fs_kvmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
-{
-	void *ret;
-
-	ret = kmalloc(size, flags | __GFP_NOWARN);
-	if (!ret)
-		ret = __vmalloc(size, flags, PAGE_KERNEL);
-	return ret;
-}
-
-static inline void *f2fs_kvzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
-{
-	void *ret;
-
-	ret = kzalloc(size, flags | __GFP_NOWARN);
-	if (!ret)
-		ret = __vmalloc(size, flags | __GFP_ZERO, PAGE_KERNEL);
-	return ret;
-}
-
 #define get_inode_mode(i) \
 	((is_inode_flag_set(i, FI_ACL_MODE)) ? \
 	 (F2FS_I(i)->i_acl_mode) : ((i)->i_mode))
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c
index 49f10dce817d..fb2e0c156135 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c
@@ -1013,11 +1013,11 @@  static int __exchange_data_block(struct inode *src_inode,
 	while (len) {
 		olen = min((pgoff_t)4 * ADDRS_PER_BLOCK, len);
 
-		src_blkaddr = f2fs_kvzalloc(sizeof(block_t) * olen, GFP_KERNEL);
+		src_blkaddr = kvzalloc(sizeof(block_t) * olen, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!src_blkaddr)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
-		do_replace = f2fs_kvzalloc(sizeof(int) * olen, GFP_KERNEL);
+		do_replace = kvzalloc(sizeof(int) * olen, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!do_replace) {
 			kvfree(src_blkaddr);
 			return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
index 0738f48293cc..c50c883bfc1a 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
@@ -2286,13 +2286,13 @@  static int build_sit_info(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 
 	SM_I(sbi)->sit_info = sit_i;
 
-	sit_i->sentries = f2fs_kvzalloc(MAIN_SEGS(sbi) *
+	sit_i->sentries = kvzalloc(MAIN_SEGS(sbi) *
 					sizeof(struct seg_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!sit_i->sentries)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	bitmap_size = f2fs_bitmap_size(MAIN_SEGS(sbi));
-	sit_i->dirty_sentries_bitmap = f2fs_kvzalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	sit_i->dirty_sentries_bitmap = kvzalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!sit_i->dirty_sentries_bitmap)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -2318,7 +2318,7 @@  static int build_sit_info(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	if (sbi->segs_per_sec > 1) {
-		sit_i->sec_entries = f2fs_kvzalloc(MAIN_SECS(sbi) *
+		sit_i->sec_entries = kvzalloc(MAIN_SECS(sbi) *
 					sizeof(struct sec_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!sit_i->sec_entries)
 			return -ENOMEM;
@@ -2364,12 +2364,12 @@  static int build_free_segmap(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 	SM_I(sbi)->free_info = free_i;
 
 	bitmap_size = f2fs_bitmap_size(MAIN_SEGS(sbi));
-	free_i->free_segmap = f2fs_kvmalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	free_i->free_segmap = kvmalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!free_i->free_segmap)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	sec_bitmap_size = f2fs_bitmap_size(MAIN_SECS(sbi));
-	free_i->free_secmap = f2fs_kvmalloc(sec_bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	free_i->free_secmap = kvmalloc(sec_bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!free_i->free_secmap)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -2537,7 +2537,7 @@  static int init_victim_secmap(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 	struct dirty_seglist_info *dirty_i = DIRTY_I(sbi);
 	unsigned int bitmap_size = f2fs_bitmap_size(MAIN_SECS(sbi));
 
-	dirty_i->victim_secmap = f2fs_kvzalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	dirty_i->victim_secmap = kvzalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!dirty_i->victim_secmap)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	return 0;
@@ -2559,7 +2559,7 @@  static int build_dirty_segmap(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 	bitmap_size = f2fs_bitmap_size(MAIN_SEGS(sbi));
 
 	for (i = 0; i < NR_DIRTY_TYPE; i++) {
-		dirty_i->dirty_segmap[i] = f2fs_kvzalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+		dirty_i->dirty_segmap[i] = kvzalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!dirty_i->dirty_segmap[i])
 			return -ENOMEM;
 	}
diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c
index 368bfb92b115..023d92dfffa9 100644
--- a/fs/seq_file.c
+++ b/fs/seq_file.c
@@ -25,21 +25,7 @@  static void seq_set_overflow(struct seq_file *m)
 
 static void *seq_buf_alloc(unsigned long size)
 {
-	void *buf;
-	gfp_t gfp = GFP_KERNEL;
-
-	/*
-	 * For high order allocations, use __GFP_NORETRY to avoid oom-killing -
-	 * it's better to fall back to vmalloc() than to kill things.  For small
-	 * allocations, just use GFP_KERNEL which will oom kill, thus no need
-	 * for vmalloc fallback.
-	 */
-	if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
-		gfp |= __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN;
-	buf = kmalloc(size, gfp);
-	if (!buf && size > PAGE_SIZE)
-		buf = vmalloc(size);
-	return buf;
+	return kvmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index 1c5190dab2c1..00e6f93d1ee0 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -768,8 +768,6 @@  void kvm_arch_check_processor_compat(void *rtn);
 int kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
 int kvm_arch_vcpu_should_kick(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
 
-void *kvm_kvzalloc(unsigned long size);
-
 #ifndef __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_VM_ALLOC
 static inline struct kvm *kvm_arch_alloc_vm(void)
 {
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 4424784ac374..38b3e2d62f0c 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -484,6 +484,20 @@  static inline int is_vmalloc_or_module_addr(const void *x)
 }
 #endif
 
+extern void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node);
+static inline void *kvmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	return kvmalloc_node(size, flags, NUMA_NO_NODE);
+}
+static inline void *kvzalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
+{
+	return kvmalloc_node(size, flags | __GFP_ZERO, node);
+}
+static inline void *kvzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	return kvmalloc(size, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
+}
+
 extern void kvfree(const void *addr);
 
 static inline atomic_t *compound_mapcount_ptr(struct page *page)
diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index d68edffbf142..46991ad3ddd5 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@  extern void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
 			unsigned long start, unsigned long end, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 			pgprot_t prot, unsigned long vm_flags, int node,
 			const void *caller);
+extern void *__vmalloc_node_flags(unsigned long size, int node, gfp_t flags);
 
 extern void vfree(const void *addr);
 extern void vfree_atomic(const void *addr);
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 210d7ec2843c..99e9f07e583b 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -236,6 +236,11 @@  void *__vmalloc(unsigned long size, gfp_t gfp_mask, pgprot_t prot)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vmalloc);
 
+void *__vmalloc_node_flags(unsigned long size, int node, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	return __vmalloc(size, flags, PAGE_KERNEL);
+}
+
 void *vmalloc_user(unsigned long size)
 {
 	void *ret;
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 449272271840..b9d7cc43d9d1 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -346,6 +346,46 @@  unsigned long vm_mmap(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_mmap);
 
+/**
+ * kvmalloc_node - allocate contiguous memory from SLAB with vmalloc fallback
+ * @size: size of the request.
+ * @flags: gfp mask for the allocation - must be compatible with GFP_KERNEL.
+ * @node: numa node to allocate from
+ *
+ * Uses kmalloc to get the memory but if the allocation fails then falls back
+ * to the vmalloc allocator. Use kvfree for freeing the memory.
+ */
+void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
+{
+	gfp_t kmalloc_flags = flags;
+	void *ret;
+
+	/*
+	 * vmalloc uses GFP_KERNEL for some internal allocations (e.g page tables)
+	 * so the given set of flags has to be compatible.
+	 */
+	WARN_ON((flags & GFP_KERNEL) != GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	/*
+	 * Make sure that larger requests are not too disruptive - no OOM
+	 * killer and no allocation failure warnings as we have a fallback
+	 */
+	if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
+		kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN;
+
+	ret = kmalloc_node(size, kmalloc_flags, node);
+
+	/*
+	 * It doesn't really make sense to fallback to vmalloc for sub page
+	 * requests
+	 */
+	if (ret || size < PAGE_SIZE)
+		return ret;
+
+	return __vmalloc_node_flags(size, node, flags);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvmalloc_node);
+
 void kvfree(const void *addr)
 {
 	if (is_vmalloc_addr(addr))
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index a5584384eabc..5e2004aceec9 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1757,7 +1757,7 @@  void *__vmalloc(unsigned long size, gfp_t gfp_mask, pgprot_t prot)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vmalloc);
 
-static inline void *__vmalloc_node_flags(unsigned long size,
+void *__vmalloc_node_flags(unsigned long size,
 					int node, gfp_t flags)
 {
 	return __vmalloc_node(size, 1, flags, PAGE_KERNEL,
diff --git a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
index 5923d5665209..83789a03379f 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@  static char *aa_simple_write_to_buffer(int op, const char __user *userbuf,
 		return ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
 
 	/* freed by caller to simple_write_to_buffer */
-	data = kvmalloc(alloc_size);
+	data = __aa_kvmalloc(alloc_size, 0);
 	if (data == NULL)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
diff --git a/security/apparmor/include/apparmor.h b/security/apparmor/include/apparmor.h
index 5d721e990876..c88fb0ebc756 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/include/apparmor.h
+++ b/security/apparmor/include/apparmor.h
@@ -68,16 +68,6 @@  char *aa_split_fqname(char *args, char **ns_name);
 void aa_info_message(const char *str);
 void *__aa_kvmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags);
 
-static inline void *kvmalloc(size_t size)
-{
-	return __aa_kvmalloc(size, 0);
-}
-
-static inline void *kvzalloc(size_t size)
-{
-	return __aa_kvmalloc(size, __GFP_ZERO);
-}
-
 /* returns 0 if kref not incremented */
 static inline int kref_get_not0(struct kref *kref)
 {
diff --git a/security/apparmor/match.c b/security/apparmor/match.c
index 3f900fcca8fb..55f6ae0067a3 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/match.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/match.c
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@  static struct table_header *unpack_table(char *blob, size_t bsize)
 	if (bsize < tsize)
 		goto out;
 
-	table = kvzalloc(tsize);
+	table = __aa_kvmalloc(tsize, __GFP_ZERO);
 	if (table) {
 		table->td_id = th.td_id;
 		table->td_flags = th.td_flags;
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index de102cae7125..c2646d3d6855 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@  static struct kvm_memslots *kvm_alloc_memslots(void)
 	int i;
 	struct kvm_memslots *slots;
 
-	slots = kvm_kvzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_memslots));
+	slots = kvzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_memslots), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!slots)
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -685,18 +685,6 @@  static struct kvm *kvm_create_vm(unsigned long type)
 	return ERR_PTR(r);
 }
 
-/*
- * Avoid using vmalloc for a small buffer.
- * Should not be used when the size is statically known.
- */
-void *kvm_kvzalloc(unsigned long size)
-{
-	if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
-		return vzalloc(size);
-	else
-		return kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
-}
-
 static void kvm_destroy_devices(struct kvm *kvm)
 {
 	struct kvm_device *dev, *tmp;
@@ -775,7 +763,7 @@  static int kvm_create_dirty_bitmap(struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot)
 {
 	unsigned long dirty_bytes = 2 * kvm_dirty_bitmap_bytes(memslot);
 
-	memslot->dirty_bitmap = kvm_kvzalloc(dirty_bytes);
+	memslot->dirty_bitmap = kvzalloc(dirty_bytes, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!memslot->dirty_bitmap)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -995,7 +983,7 @@  int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
 			goto out_free;
 	}
 
-	slots = kvm_kvzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_memslots));
+	slots = kvzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_memslots), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!slots)
 		goto out_free;
 	memcpy(slots, __kvm_memslots(kvm, as_id), sizeof(struct kvm_memslots));