[PATCH v2 1/2] usb: host: ohci-dbg: use kmalloc() for print buffer

From: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)

Date: Wed Jul 01 2026 - 05:43:40 EST


ochi-dbg allocates buffers for formatting of various dump outputs.

These buffers can be allocated with kmalloc() as there's nothing special
about them 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_zeroed_page() with kzalloc() and free_page() with
kfree().

While on it, drop the NULL checks in debug_close(). buf is never NULL
here because all the open handlers return -ENOMEM when alloc_buffer()
fails, and kfree() can handle a NULL buf->page.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/635405e4-9423-4a25-a6e7-e03c8ea0bcbe@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/host/ohci-dbg.c | 9 +++------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ohci-dbg.c b/drivers/usb/host/ohci-dbg.c
index 9e0e06bbc570..23dc9eddc06c 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/host/ohci-dbg.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/ohci-dbg.c
@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ static int fill_buffer(struct debug_buffer *buf)
int ret;

if (!buf->page)
- buf->page = (char *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+ buf->page = kzalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);

if (!buf->page) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -729,11 +729,8 @@ static int debug_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
struct debug_buffer *buf = file->private_data;

- if (buf) {
- if (buf->page)
- free_page((unsigned long)buf->page);
- kfree(buf);
- }
+ kfree(buf->page);
+ kfree(buf);

return 0;
}

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