commit f74373a5cc7a0155d232c4e999648c7a95435bb2
author Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Wed Jul 02 15:22:37 2014 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Thu Jul 03 09:21:54 2014 -0700
tree 9fe161e959fa98bf4dc32d994ab9f781aecc0ef8
parent 0bc1f8b0682caa39f45ce1e0228ebf43acb46111

/proc/stat: convert to single_open_size()

These two patches are supposed to "fix" failed order-4 memory
allocations which have been observed when reading /proc/stat.  The
problem has been observed on s390 as well as on x86.

To address the problem change the seq_file memory allocations to
fallback to use vmalloc, so that allocations also work if memory is
fragmented.

This approach seems to be simpler and less intrusive than changing
/proc/stat to use an interator.  Also it "fixes" other users as well,
which use seq_file's single_open() interface.

This patch (of 2):

Use seq_file's single_open_size() to preallocate a buffer that is large
enough to hold the whole output, instead of open coding it.  Also
calculate the requested size using the number of online cpus instead of
possible cpus, since the size of the output only depends on the number
of online cpus.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thorsten Diehl <thorsten.diehl@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>