Re: [PATCH 0/6] s390/drivers: replace __get_free_pages() call with kmalloc()

[Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>]

On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 08:21:59AM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 06:16:28PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > Did you use a particular tool/script to identify these locations?
> > > The immediat question would by why these sources only and not the
> > > others that also use the old functions?
> > 
> > I used an LLM to identify "the most safe callers to convert" to being with. 
> > 
> > Since every call site requires a manual review of the surrounding code and
> > the actual usage, for the first round I limited the changes to allocations
> > that are temporary or staging buffers.
> > 
> > With a less restrictive prompt I've got 57 patches to s390 (both arch/ and
> > drivers/), bu that's too much for me to chew in a single setting :)
> 
> Thanks for the explanation!
> 
> > If you are curious, overall changes (before the human review) are here:
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/linux.git/log/?h=gfp-to-kmalloc/v0.2
> 
> So you are planning to address all of those?

Yeah, that's the plan.
Slowly but steadily :)
 
-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.