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From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	 David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>,
	Li Nan <linan122@huawei.com>,  Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,  Xiao Ni <xiao@kernel.org>,
	Yu Kuai <yukuai@fnnas.com>,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	 linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/2] raid6: use kmalloc() in raid6_select_algo()
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 10:27:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260528-lib-v3-2-feccddf1cb6d@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260528-lib-v3-0-feccddf1cb6d@kernel.org>

raid6_select_algo() allocates 8 pages for buffer that is used
as a scratch area for selection of the best algorithm.

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 than ancient __get_free_pages().
kmalloc() does not require ugly casts and kfree() does not need to know the
size of the freed object.

There is no performance difference because kmalloc() redirects allocations
of such size to the page allocator.

Replace __get_free_pages() call with kmalloc().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/635405e4-9423-4a25-a6e7-e03c8ea0bcbe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
---
 lib/raid6/algos.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/raid6/algos.c b/lib/raid6/algos.c
index 799e0e5eac26..89e627c62e30 100644
--- a/lib/raid6/algos.c
+++ b/lib/raid6/algos.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/raid/pq.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
 #ifndef __KERNEL__
 #include <sys/mman.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
@@ -129,7 +130,6 @@ const struct raid6_recov_calls *const raid6_recov_algos[] = {
 #endif
 
 #define RAID6_TEST_DISKS	8
-#define RAID6_TEST_DISKS_ORDER	3
 
 static inline const struct raid6_recov_calls *raid6_choose_recov(void)
 {
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ int __init raid6_select_algo(void)
 	int i, cycle;
 
 	/* prepare the buffer and fill it circularly with gfmul table */
-	disk_ptr = (char *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, RAID6_TEST_DISKS_ORDER);
+	disk_ptr = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE * RAID6_TEST_DISKS, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!disk_ptr) {
 		pr_err("raid6: Yikes!  No memory available.\n");
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ int __init raid6_select_algo(void)
 	/* select raid recover functions */
 	rec_best = raid6_choose_recov();
 
-	free_pages((unsigned long)disk_ptr, RAID6_TEST_DISKS_ORDER);
+	kfree(disk_ptr);
 
 	return gen_best && rec_best ? 0 : -EINVAL;
 }

-- 
2.53.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-28  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-28  7:27 [PATCH v3 0/2] lib/raid: replace __get_free_pages() call with kvmalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-28  7:27 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] xor: use kmalloc() in calibrate_xor_blocks() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-28  8:54   ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-05-28  9:49     ` Mike Rapoport
2026-05-28  7:27 ` Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) [this message]
2026-05-28  8:55   ` [PATCH v3 2/2] raid6: use kmalloc() in raid6_select_algo() Christoph Hellwig

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