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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
To: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: 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: Fri, 29 May 2026 09:47:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18bb4a45-c26b-4a89-b598-a844d3aadafa@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260528-b4-tty-v1-3-9da9f7aec5f2@kernel.org>

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.

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs

  reply	other threads:[~2026-05-29  7:47 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 [this message]
2026-05-29  8:43     ` Mike Rapoport
2026-05-29  8:52       ` Jiri Slaby
2026-07-07 15:22         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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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