The patch titled Subject: mm/dmapool.c: revert "make dma pool to use kmalloc_node" has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is dma-revert-make-dma-pool-to-use-kmalloc_node.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/dma-revert-make-dma-pool-to-use-kmalloc_node.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/dma-revert-make-dma-pool-to-use-kmalloc_node.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: "=?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?=" <ckoenig.leichtzumerken@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/dmapool.c: revert "make dma pool to use kmalloc_node" This reverts commit 2618c60b8b5836 ("dma: make dma pool to use kmalloc_node"). While working myself into the dmapool code I've found this little odd kmalloc_node(). What basically happens here is that we allocate the housekeeping structure on the numa node where the device is attached to. Since the device is never doing DMA to or from that memory this doesn't seem to make sense at all. So while this doesn't seem to cause much harm it's probably cleaner to revert the change for consistency. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211221110724.97664-1-christian.koenig@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/dmapool.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/dmapool.c~dma-revert-make-dma-pool-to-use-kmalloc_node +++ a/mm/dmapool.c @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ struct dma_pool *dma_pool_create(const c else if ((boundary < size) || (boundary & (boundary - 1))) return NULL; - retval = kmalloc_node(sizeof(*retval), GFP_KERNEL, dev_to_node(dev)); + retval = kmalloc(sizeof(*retval), GFP_KERNEL); if (!retval) return retval; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ckoenig.leichtzumerken@xxxxxxxxx are dma-revert-make-dma-pool-to-use-kmalloc_node.patch