From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 251A03F5BD3; Wed, 1 Jul 2026 09:41:59 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1782898921; cv=none; b=ColhYpsOvG1MWqw/0nJA7u5pHFK53OnowdvHqbAvV0/J8XI/YfjWg0aN6JrqeASEAVVb9YHoztdAtJUrIL7pIte/anUVLlK/WmTZHXF8yExNB6TD6WHZHtQI7cf6I9zw3uOtt+7a3c7dE4cLfUJTlaVUPrNgjSu1nPyYNV37FzE= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1782898921; c=relaxed/simple; bh=sqlU3WbIlHqXv0fVvQ0elHrvCeiaZX7mfyapQblBwXI=; h=From:Subject:Date:Message-Id:MIME-Version:Content-Type:To:Cc; b=XH5VH2M9gbmzwH6xacz2WtqtQlVnZt0HTwuwY0xqQGYifdtPNPlM/2JCaLWw1L1wo6IBIz0VL3qHVUEder6XTFHmcDoDS5hBvnHnyXoAtBlt6dTT50+ZOyx2UxDhin5mzTqHjePolLHu6ZhIPYGMK92sierKtt7UfCG4jasqDWw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=aqERfpti; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="aqERfpti" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D34201F000E9; Wed, 1 Jul 2026 09:41:57 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1782898919; bh=e0uy7x/pJ79r/rXJ+9S9E9BL/ogclOfY0Gy5f24mEKI=; h=From:Subject:Date:To:Cc; b=aqERfptiIxjejW8vzKWxznsIUYrh+beV8btiu6X1UlMJSP2L/oLkqvqJcf3pW5GHH j/vB7c6j+GdGvphhLqwQ/7BMe5P/al7wLvn5diuBGtnn8fyaQug5OPd9hGfcRTTT8f MQKAGQRfkkZfNto+ZpWoJId7sSTXuh+nLJseOCsQ91Axgto8HxbGbSv9UmrOLIEkAr uzkq5na7eGPRr2w5rXxew5VaUrYptTLtnbRmhLQvhKE1p0G+h2Ndpqmh1idc45+PLY uZmMOY2qZtJ3f+AmZu1PDhgQMQPoX5h65NhrH1ndzje8BzndQmwyfZHJzBk/WrF6Qp z8aFUDw27lRoQ== From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] USB: replace __get_free_pages() with kmalloc() Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:41:49 +0300 Message-Id: <20260701-b4-usb-v2-0-272807df4b64@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-B4-Tracking: v=1; b=H4sIAN3gRGoC/zWOTQ6CMBCFr0JmbU1pCxhX3sOwaMsIVVPIDBAN4 e5S1OX38v4WYKSADOdsAcI5cOjjBuqQge9sbFGEZmNQUpWyzEvhjJjYCael8haNlKaBzTwQ3sJ rL7rWX+bJ3dGPKZ0czjIKRzb6LkkJk9wFHnt67wfmPMV/W1r+t+ZcSHFqClMpXXhdmcsDKeLz2 FML9bquH62+4ezGAAAA X-Change-ID: 20260616-b4-usb-b302cae4004d To: Alan Stern , Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Mike Rapoport , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" X-Mailer: b4 0.16-dev This is a (small) part of larger work of replacing page allocator calls with kmalloc. My initial intention a few month ago was to remove ugly casts [1], but then willy pointed out that Linus objected to something like this [2] and it looks like more than a decade old technical debt. Largely, anything that doesn't need struct page (or a memdesc in the future) should just use kmalloc() or kvmalloc() to allocate memory. kmalloc() guarantees alignment, physical contiguity and working virt_to_phys() and beside nicer API that returns void * on alloc and doesn't require to know the allocation size on free, kmalloc() provides better debugging capabilities than page allocator. Another thing is that touching these allocation sites gives the reviewers opportunity to see if a PAGE_SIZE buffer is actually needed or maybe another size is appropriate. For larger allocations that don't need physically contiguous memory kvmalloc() can be a better option that __get_free_pages() because under memory pressure it's is easier to allocate several order-0 pages than a physically contiguous chunk with the same number of pages. And last, but not least, removing needless calls to page allocator should help with memdesc (aka project folio) conversion. There will be way less places to audit to see if the user was actually using struct page. Also in git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/linux.git gfp-to-kmalloc/usb [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251018093002.3660549-1-rppt@kernel.org/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+55aFwp4iy4rtX2gE2WjBGFL=NxMVnoFeHqYa2j1dYOMMGqxg@mail.gmail.com/ --- v2 changes: - rephrase the sentence about unconditional kfree() to make it clear why it is safe - don't include in ohci-dbg - fix name of debugfs directory v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260630-b4-usb-v1-0-8d547235c374@kernel.org --- Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) (2): usb: host: ohci-dbg: use kmalloc() for print buffer usb: core: devices: use kmalloc() to allocate dump buffer drivers/usb/core/devices.c | 7 ++++--- drivers/usb/host/ohci-dbg.c | 9 +++------ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- base-commit: dc59e4fea9d83f03bad6bddf3fa2e52491777482 change-id: 20260616-b4-usb-b302cae4004d Best regards, -- Sincerely yours, Mike.