[PATCH v2] dmaengine: xilinx: xdma: use kzalloc_flex()

From: Rosen Penev

Date: Mon Oct 05 2026 - 15:26:40 EST


Change desc_blocks to a flexible array member so the descriptor and
its block array are allocated together, removing one allocation and
its error handling.

Add __counted_by for extra runtime analysis, and set dblk_num right
after allocation which is already done by kzalloc_flex() for GCC >= 15.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dma/xilinx/xdma.c | 15 +++++----------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/xilinx/xdma.c b/drivers/dma/xilinx/xdma.c
index 8d4a5d14e8db..16d202722245 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/xilinx/xdma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/xilinx/xdma.c
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ struct xdma_chan {
* @vdesc: Virtual DMA descriptor
* @chan: DMA channel pointer
* @dir: Transferring direction of the request
- * @desc_blocks: Hardware descriptor blocks
* @dblk_num: Number of hardware descriptor blocks
* @desc_num: Number of hardware descriptors
* @completed_desc_num: Completed hardware descriptors
@@ -91,12 +90,12 @@ struct xdma_chan {
* @period_size: Size of a period in bytes in cyclic transfers
* @frames_left: Number of frames left in interleaved DMA transfer
* @error: tx error flag
+ * @desc_blocks: Hardware descriptor blocks
*/
struct xdma_desc {
struct virt_dma_desc vdesc;
struct xdma_chan *chan;
enum dma_transfer_direction dir;
- struct xdma_desc_block *desc_blocks;
u32 dblk_num;
u32 desc_num;
u32 completed_desc_num;
@@ -106,6 +105,7 @@ struct xdma_desc {
u32 period_size;
u32 frames_left;
bool error;
+ struct xdma_desc_block desc_blocks[] __counted_by(dblk_num);
};

#define XDMA_DEV_STATUS_REG_DMA BIT(0)
@@ -255,7 +255,6 @@ static void xdma_free_desc(struct virt_dma_desc *vdesc)
sw_desc->desc_blocks[i].virt_addr,
sw_desc->desc_blocks[i].dma_addr);
}
- kfree(sw_desc->desc_blocks);
kfree(sw_desc);
}

@@ -276,26 +275,22 @@ xdma_alloc_desc(struct xdma_chan *chan, u32 desc_num, bool cyclic)
void *addr;
int i, j;

- sw_desc = kzalloc_obj(*sw_desc, GFP_NOWAIT);
+ dblk_num = DIV_ROUND_UP(desc_num, XDMA_DESC_ADJACENT);
+ sw_desc = kzalloc_flex(*sw_desc, desc_blocks, dblk_num, GFP_NOWAIT);
if (!sw_desc)
return NULL;

+ sw_desc->dblk_num = dblk_num;
sw_desc->chan = chan;
sw_desc->desc_num = desc_num;
sw_desc->cyclic = cyclic;
sw_desc->error = false;
- dblk_num = DIV_ROUND_UP(desc_num, XDMA_DESC_ADJACENT);
- sw_desc->desc_blocks = kzalloc_objs(*sw_desc->desc_blocks, dblk_num,
- GFP_NOWAIT);
- if (!sw_desc->desc_blocks)
- goto failed;

if (cyclic)
control = XDMA_DESC_CONTROL_CYCLIC;
else
control = XDMA_DESC_CONTROL(1, 0);

- sw_desc->dblk_num = dblk_num;
for (i = 0; i < sw_desc->dblk_num; i++) {
addr = dma_pool_alloc(chan->desc_pool, GFP_NOWAIT, &dma_addr);
if (!addr)
--
2.56.0