From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>, Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] replace __get_free_pages() call with kmalloc()
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:09:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aip7Y3UHmXsdX8OH@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FD8E1FD-6E18-46D9-AE93-00FA1A66C775@nvidia.com>
On Fri, Jun 05, 2026 at 04:00:33PM -0400, Zi Yan wrote:
> On 23 May 2026, at 13:54, Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) wrote:
>
> > This is a (small) part of larger work of replacing page allocator calls
> > with kmalloc.
>
> Is the goal to get rid of __get_free_page(s)()?
Yes, eventually.
My initial intention a few month ago was to remove the ugly casts [1], but
then willy pointed out that Linus objected to something like this [2] and
it looks like more than a decade old technical debt.
Since there are more than 600 or those it will take a while to convert
suitable gfp calls to kmalloc.
Afterwards we can re-evaluate what APIs we want to provide for allocations
that must have actual pages.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251018093002.3660549-1-rppt@kernel.org/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+55aFwp4iy4rtX2gE2WjBGFL=NxMVnoFeHqYa2j1dYOMMGqxg@mail.gmail.com/
> Thanks.
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-23 17:54 [PATCH 00/17] fs: replace __get_free_pages() call with kmalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 01/17] quota: allocate dquot_hash " Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-25 16:10 ` Jan Kara
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 02/17] proc: replace __get_free_page() " Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-25 16:11 ` Jan Kara
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 03/17] ocfs2/dlm: " Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-25 2:50 ` Joseph Qi
2026-05-25 16:13 ` Jan Kara
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 04/17] nilfs2: replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-25 17:07 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2026-05-27 16:02 ` Ryusuke Konishi
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 05/17] NFS: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() in nfs_show_devname() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 06/17] NFS: remove unused page and page2 in nfs4_replace_transport() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 07/17] NFSD: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() in nfsd_buffered_readdir() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-23 18:45 ` Jeff Layton
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 08/17] libfs: simple_transaction_get(): replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 09/17] jfs: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 10/17] jbd2: replace __get_free_pages() " Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-25 16:17 ` Jan Kara
2026-05-25 17:21 ` David Laight
2026-05-25 17:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-05-26 9:35 ` David Laight
2026-06-03 13:50 ` Theodore Tso
2026-06-04 6:14 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-06-04 14:05 ` Theodore Tso
2026-06-04 14:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-06-05 8:33 ` David Laight
2026-06-05 9:50 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2026-06-05 20:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 11/17] isofs: replace __get_free_page() " Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-25 16:17 ` Jan Kara
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 12/17] fuse: " Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-26 15:00 ` Miklos Szeredi
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 13/17] fs/select: " Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-25 16:19 ` Jan Kara
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 14/17] fs/namespace: use __getname() to allocate mntpath buffer Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-25 16:22 ` Jan Kara
2026-05-26 9:06 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-05-28 11:54 ` Christian Brauner
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 15/17] configfs: replace __get_free_pages() with kzalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-25 16:22 ` Jan Kara
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 16/17] binfmt_misc: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 17/17] bfs: replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-27 12:05 ` [PATCH 00/17] fs: replace __get_free_pages() call with kmalloc() Christian Brauner
2026-06-05 20:00 ` [PATCH 00/17] " Zi Yan
2026-06-11 9:09 ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
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