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From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
	Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
	 Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
	 Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	 Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>,
	 Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>,
	 Vineeth Vijayan <vneethv@linux.ibm.com>,
	 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH 07/13] s390/idals: Use kmalloc() for IDAL data buffers
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:23:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260907-s390-cio-ready-v1-7-ca7f39806234@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260907-s390-cio-ready-v1-0-ca7f39806234@kernel.org>

idal_buffer_alloc() allocates the data chunks of an IDAL buffer that is
used for channel I/O.

These buffers can be allocated with kmalloc() as there's nothing special
about them 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.

Performance difference between kmalloc() and __get_free_pages() is not
measurable as both allocators take an object/page from a per-CPU list for
fast path allocations.

For the slow path the performance is anyway determined by the amount of
reclaim involved rather than by what allocator is used.

Replace use of __get_free_pages() with kmalloc() and free_pages() with
kfree().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/635405e4-9423-4a25-a6e7-e03c8ea0bcbe@redhat.com
Assisted-by: copilot:claude-opus
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
---
 arch/s390/include/asm/idals.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/idals.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/idals.h
index 06e1ec2afd5af..248829d461bce 100644
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/idals.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/idals.h
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ static inline struct idal_buffer *idal_buffer_alloc(size_t size, int page_order)
 			ib->data[i] = dma64_add(ib->data[i - 1], IDA_BLOCK_SIZE);
 			continue;
 		}
-		vaddr = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, page_order);
+		vaddr = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE << page_order, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!vaddr)
 			goto error;
 		ib->data[i] = virt_to_dma64(vaddr);
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ static inline struct idal_buffer *idal_buffer_alloc(size_t size, int page_order)
 	while (i >= nr_chunks) {
 		i -= nr_chunks;
 		vaddr = dma64_to_virt(ib->data[i]);
-		free_pages((unsigned long)vaddr, ib->page_order);
+		kfree(vaddr);
 	}
 	kfree(ib);
 	return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ static inline void idal_buffer_free(struct idal_buffer *ib)
 	nr_chunks = (PAGE_SIZE << ib->page_order) >> IDA_SIZE_SHIFT;
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_ptrs; i += nr_chunks) {
 		vaddr = dma64_to_virt(ib->data[i]);
-		free_pages((unsigned long)vaddr, ib->page_order);
+		kfree(vaddr);
 	}
 	kfree(ib);
 }

-- 
2.53.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-07 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-07 10:23 [PATCH 00/13] s390/cio: replace page allocator calls with k[mz]alloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-09-07 10:23 ` [PATCH 01/13] s390/chsc: Use kzalloc() for CUBs Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-09-07 10:23 ` [PATCH 02/13] s390/chsc: Use kzalloc() for the SEI work area Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-09-07 10:23 ` [PATCH 03/13] s390/chsc_sch: Use kzalloc() for CHSC requests Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-09-07 10:23 ` [PATCH 04/13] s390/chsc_sch: Use __free(kfree) for synchronous " Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-09-07 10:23 ` [PATCH 05/13] s390/cio: Use kzalloc() for CHSC work areas Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-09-07 10:23 ` [PATCH 06/13] s390/cmf: Use kmalloc() for the CMB area Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-09-07 10:23 ` Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) [this message]
2026-09-07 10:23 ` [PATCH 08/13] s390/qdio_main: Use kzalloc() for the IRQ structure Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-09-07 10:23 ` [PATCH 09/13] s390/qdio_main: Use kzalloc() for the QDR Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-09-07 10:23 ` [PATCH 10/13] s390/qdio_setup: Use kzalloc() for QDIO buffers Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-09-07 10:23 ` [PATCH 11/13] s390/qdio_setup: Use kzalloc() for the storage list Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-09-07 10:23 ` [PATCH 12/13] s390/qdio_setup: Use kzalloc() for the SSQD request Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-09-07 10:23 ` [PATCH 13/13] s390/scm: Use kmalloc() for SCM information Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)

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