From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.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: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 17:22:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026070717-elixir-pointy-c698@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98ebf7d1-244f-4fbc-afc4-3e8940df5422@kernel.org>
On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 10:52:49AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 29. 05. 26, 10:43, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > 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?
>
> You added it after an empty line -- along to #defines. You should had added
> it along #includes instead -- before the empty line.
I've fixed it up when applying it, thanks.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-07 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ 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
2026-05-29 8:52 ` Jiri Slaby
2026-07-07 15:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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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