[PATCH 4/4] scsi: sym53c8xx_2: replace __get_free_pages() with kmalloc()
From: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
Date: Tue Jun 30 2026 - 07:00:49 EST
sym53c8xx_2 driver has an internal memory allocator for small
allocations of the driver structures. The backing memory for that
allocator is allocated with __get_free_pages().
This memory 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_pages() with kmalloc() and free_pages() with
kfree().
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/635405e4-9423-4a25-a6e7-e03c8ea0bcbe@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h
index 9231a2899064..aa365e8ba66f 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h
@@ -1110,9 +1110,9 @@ sym_build_sge(struct sym_hcb *np, struct sym_tblmove *data, u64 badd, int len)
*/
#define sym_get_mem_cluster() \
- (void *) __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, SYM_MEM_PAGE_ORDER)
+ kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE << SYM_MEM_PAGE_ORDER, GFP_ATOMIC)
#define sym_free_mem_cluster(p) \
- free_pages((unsigned long)p, SYM_MEM_PAGE_ORDER)
+ kfree(p)
/*
* Link between free memory chunks of a given size.
--
2.53.0