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From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] tty: serial: men_z135_uart: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc()
Date: Fri, 29 May 2026 11:43:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ahlRqd3e94ojSfWE@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18bb4a45-c26b-4a89-b598-a844d3aadafa@kernel.org>

On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 09:47:33AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 28. 05. 26, 12:24, Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) wrote:
> > men_z135_probe() allocates a receive staging buffer filled by the
> > CPU via memcpy_fromio() from the device MMIO region.
> > 
> > This buffer can be allocated with kmalloc() as there's nothing special
> > about it to go directly to the page allocator.
> > 
> > kmalloc() provides a better API that does not require ugly casts and
> > kfree() does not need to know the size of the freed object.
> > 
> > Replace use of __get_free_page() with kmalloc() and free_page() with
> > kfree().
> > 
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/635405e4-9423-4a25-a6e7-e03c8ea0bcbe@redhat.com
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
> > ---
> >   drivers/tty/serial/men_z135_uart.c | 7 ++++---
> >   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/men_z135_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/men_z135_uart.c
> > index 6fad57fee912..9c32b01edc9e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/men_z135_uart.c
> > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/men_z135_uart.c
> > @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
> >   #include <linux/bitops.h>
> >   #include <linux/mcb.h>
> > +#include <linux/slab.h>
> >   #define MEN_Z135_MAX_PORTS		12
> 
> This one is misplaced.

Do you mean an empty line is missing? Or there's particular order of
includes here?
 
> thanks,
> -- 
> js
> suse labs

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.


  reply	other threads:[~2026-05-29  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-28 10:24 [PATCH 0/4] tty: replace __get_free_pages() with kmalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-28 10:24 ` [PATCH 1/4] serial: pch: replace __get_free_page() " Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-28 10:24 ` [PATCH 2/4] tty: amiserial: replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-28 10:24 ` [PATCH 3/4] tty: serial: men_z135_uart: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-29  7:47   ` Jiri Slaby
2026-05-29  8:43     ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
2026-05-29  8:52       ` Jiri Slaby
2026-05-28 10:24 ` [PATCH 4/4] vc_screen: replace __get_free_pages() " Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-29  7:47   ` Jiri Slaby

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