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Miller" , Dave Hansen , David Hildenbrand , Dmitry Vyukov , Ilias Apalodimas , Ingo Molnar , Jan Kara , Johannes Weiner , "Liam R. Howlett" , Lorenzo Stoakes , Madhavan Srinivasan , Marco Elver , Marek Szyprowski , Masami Hiramatsu , Michael Ellerman , Michal Hocko , Mike Rapoport , Nicholas Piggin , "H. Peter Anvin" , Rob Herring , Robin Murphy , Saravana Kannan , Suren Baghdasaryan , Thomas Gleixner , Vlastimil Babka , Will Deacon , Zi Yan , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux.dev, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v2 2/9] powerpc: fadump: pair alloc_pages_exact() with free_pages_exact() Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:48:29 +0200 Message-ID: <20260323074836.3653702-3-rppt@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 In-Reply-To: <20260323074836.3653702-1-rppt@kernel.org> References: <20260323074836.3653702-1-rppt@kernel.org> X-Mailing-List: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Archive: , List-Subscribe: , , List-Unsubscribe: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" fadump allocates buffers with alloc_pages_exact(), but then marks them as reserved and frees using free_reserved_area(). This is completely unnecessary and the pages allocated with alloc_pages_exact() can be naturally freed with free_pages_exact(). Replace freeing of memory in fadump_free_buffer() with free_pages_exact() and simplify allocation code so that it won't mark allocated pages as reserved. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) --- arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c | 16 ++-------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c index 4ebc333dd786..501d43bf18f3 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c @@ -775,24 +775,12 @@ void __init fadump_update_elfcore_header(char *bufp) static void *__init fadump_alloc_buffer(unsigned long size) { - unsigned long count, i; - struct page *page; - void *vaddr; - - vaddr = alloc_pages_exact(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO); - if (!vaddr) - return NULL; - - count = PAGE_ALIGN(size) / PAGE_SIZE; - page = virt_to_page(vaddr); - for (i = 0; i < count; i++) - mark_page_reserved(page + i); - return vaddr; + return alloc_pages_exact(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO); } static void fadump_free_buffer(unsigned long vaddr, unsigned long size) { - free_reserved_area((void *)vaddr, (void *)(vaddr + size), -1, NULL); + free_pages_exact((void *)vaddr, size); } s32 __init fadump_setup_cpu_notes_buf(u32 num_cpus) -- 2.53.0