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Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 23:08:31 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: partitions: replace __get_free_page() with
 kmalloc()
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On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 11:15:52AM +0300, Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) wrote:
> check_partition() allocates a buffer to use as backing buffer for
> seq_buf.
> 
> This buffer can be allocated with kmalloc() as there's nothing special
> about it to go directly to the page allocator.
> 
> Replace use of __get_free_page() with kmalloc() and free_page() with
> kfree().

So I heard various vague references that we should replace
__get_free_page with kmalloc, but nothing definitive.  Can you please
point to a good resource for that?