From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Michael Thayer <michael.thayer@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] virt: vbox: Use __get_free_pages instead of kmalloc for DMA32 memory
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:57:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180329115719.GC6734@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180329112116.26488-2-hdegoede@redhat.com>
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 01:21:15PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> @@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ void vbg_req_free(void *req, size_t len)
> if (!req)
> return;
>
> - kfree(req);
> + free_pages((unsigned long)req, get_order(PAGE_ALIGN(len)));
> }
Really? This feels wrong to me, why is this driver so special that it
has to use free_pages and the like?
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-29 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-29 11:21 [PATCH 1/3] virt: vbox: Add vbg_req_free() helper function Hans de Goede
2018-03-29 11:21 ` [PATCH 2/3] virt: vbox: Use __get_free_pages instead of kmalloc for DMA32 memory Hans de Goede
2018-03-29 11:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2018-03-29 11:58 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-29 13:42 ` Hans de Goede
2018-03-29 16:39 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-03 13:20 ` Hans de Goede
2018-03-29 11:55 ` [PATCH 1/3] virt: vbox: Add vbg_req_free() helper function Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-29 13:12 ` Hans de Goede
2018-03-29 11:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-29 13:16 ` Hans de Goede
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