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From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	 "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Manish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>,
	 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@gmail.com>,
	 Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>,
	 Sudarsana Kalluru <skalluru@marvell.com>,
	 Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	 intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-net-drivers@amd.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] sfc: use kmalloc() to allocate logging buffer
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:57:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260701-b4-drivers-ethernet-v1-4-58776615db6e@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260701-b4-drivers-ethernet-v1-0-58776615db6e@kernel.org>

efx_mcdi_init() allocates a logging buffer for MCDI firmware
communication diagnostics.

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.

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_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/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c
index e65db9b70724..b806d3d90c42 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/moduleparam.h>
 #include <linux/atomic.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
 #include "net_driver.h"
 #include "nic.h"
 #include "io.h"
@@ -71,7 +72,7 @@ int efx_mcdi_init(struct efx_nic *efx)
 	mcdi->efx = efx;
 #ifdef CONFIG_SFC_MCDI_LOGGING
 	/* consuming code assumes buffer is page-sized */
-	mcdi->logging_buffer = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+	mcdi->logging_buffer = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!mcdi->logging_buffer)
 		goto fail1;
 	mcdi->logging_enabled = mcdi_logging_default;
@@ -112,7 +113,7 @@ int efx_mcdi_init(struct efx_nic *efx)
 	return 0;
 fail2:
 #ifdef CONFIG_SFC_MCDI_LOGGING
-	free_page((unsigned long)mcdi->logging_buffer);
+	kfree(mcdi->logging_buffer);
 fail1:
 #endif
 	kfree(efx->mcdi);
@@ -138,7 +139,7 @@ void efx_mcdi_fini(struct efx_nic *efx)
 		return;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SFC_MCDI_LOGGING
-	free_page((unsigned long)efx->mcdi->iface.logging_buffer);
+	kfree(efx->mcdi->iface.logging_buffer);
 #endif
 
 	kfree(efx->mcdi);

-- 
2.53.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-01 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-01 13:57 [PATCH 0/4] drivers/net/ethernet: replace __get_free_pages() with kmalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-07-01 13:57 ` [PATCH 1/4] bnx2x: use kzalloc() to allocate mac filtering list Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-07-02 13:52   ` Przemek Kitszel
2026-07-02 14:35     ` Mike Rapoport
2026-07-01 13:57 ` [PATCH 2/4] ice: use kzalloc() to allocate staging buffer for reading from GNSS Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-07-02 13:49   ` Przemek Kitszel
2026-07-02 14:40     ` Mike Rapoport
2026-07-01 13:57 ` [PATCH 3/4] sfc/siena: use kmalloc() to allocate logging buffer Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-07-01 17:01   ` Edward Cree
2026-07-01 13:57 ` Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) [this message]
2026-07-01 16:59   ` [PATCH 4/4] sfc: " Edward Cree

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