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[RFC,38/39] rpc: Allow to demand-allocate pages to encode into

Message ID 73447bd6fc331c911d32f212d85cc65898432ce5.1427471526.git.agruenba@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Andreas Grünbacher March 27, 2015, 4:50 p.m. UTC
When encoding large, variable-length objects such as acls into xdr_bufs, it is
easier to allocate buffer pages on demand rather than computing the required
buffer size beforehand.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
---
 net/sunrpc/xdr.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xdr.c b/net/sunrpc/xdr.c
index 4439ac4..062951b 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xdr.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xdr.c
@@ -537,6 +537,14 @@  static __be32 *xdr_get_next_encode_buffer(struct xdr_stream *xdr,
 	 */
 	xdr->scratch.iov_base = xdr->p;
 	xdr->scratch.iov_len = frag1bytes;
+
+	if (!*xdr->page_ptr) {
+		struct page *page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!page)
+			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+		*xdr->page_ptr = page;
+	}
+
 	p = page_address(*xdr->page_ptr);
 	/*
 	 * Note this is where the next encode will start after we've