hvcs_initialize() allocates the buffer that receives the partner info returned by the H_VTERM_PARTNER_INFO hypercall. The buffer is passed to the hypervisor as a physical address and it must not cross a page boundary.
kmalloc() guarantees that a power of two sized allocation is aligned to its size, so a PAGE_SIZE allocation is page aligned as well. 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/[email protected] Assisted-by: copilot:claude-opus Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <[email protected]> --- drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c index d32b1e3c50bf..b94d59fa3627 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c +++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c @@ -1470,7 +1470,7 @@ static int hvcs_initialize(void) goto register_fail; } - hvcs_pi_buff = (unsigned long *) __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL); + hvcs_pi_buff = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); if (!hvcs_pi_buff) { rc = -ENOMEM; goto buff_alloc_fail; @@ -1486,7 +1486,7 @@ static int hvcs_initialize(void) return 0; kthread_fail: - free_page((unsigned long)hvcs_pi_buff); + kfree(hvcs_pi_buff); buff_alloc_fail: tty_unregister_driver(hvcs_tty_driver); register_fail: @@ -1528,7 +1528,7 @@ static void __exit hvcs_module_exit(void) kthread_stop(hvcs_task); spin_lock(&hvcs_pi_lock); - free_page((unsigned long)hvcs_pi_buff); + kfree(hvcs_pi_buff); hvcs_pi_buff = NULL; spin_unlock(&hvcs_pi_lock); -- 2.53.0
