The patch titled
Subject: dmapool: rearrange page alloc failure handling
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
dmapool-rearrange-page-alloc-failure-handling.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/dmapool-rearrange-page-alloc-failure-handling.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: dmapool: rearrange page alloc failure handling
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:51:20 -0800
Handle the error in a condition so the good path can be in the normal
flow.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126215125.4069751-8-kbusch@xxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tony Battersby <tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/dmapool.c | 16 +++++++++-------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/dmapool.c~dmapool-rearrange-page-alloc-failure-handling
+++ a/mm/dmapool.c
@@ -292,17 +292,19 @@ static struct dma_page *pool_alloc_page(
page = kmalloc(sizeof(*page), mem_flags);
if (!page)
return NULL;
+
page->vaddr = dma_alloc_coherent(pool->dev, pool->allocation,
&page->dma, mem_flags);
- if (page->vaddr) {
- pool_init_page(pool, page);
- pool_initialise_page(pool, page);
- page->in_use = 0;
- page->offset = 0;
- } else {
+ if (!page->vaddr) {
kfree(page);
- page = NULL;
+ return NULL;
}
+
+ pool_init_page(pool, page);
+ pool_initialise_page(pool, page);
+ page->in_use = 0;
+ page->offset = 0;
+
return page;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx are
dmapool-add-alloc-free-performance-test.patch
dmapool-move-debug-code-to-own-functions.patch
dmapool-rearrange-page-alloc-failure-handling.patch
dmapool-consolidate-page-initialization.patch
dmapool-simplify-freeing.patch
dmapool-dont-memset-on-free-twice.patch
dmapool-link-blocks-across-pages.patch
dmapool-create-destroy-cleanup.patch
