From 764f2a0c6d1e5bc8f7c2438e0dd6572a322f8762 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2026 16:57:19 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] ice: use kzalloc() to allocate staging buffer for reading from GNSS ice_gnss_read() uses get_zeroed_page() to allocate a staging buffer for reading GNSS module data via I2C bus. This buffer 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_zeroed_page() with kzalloc() and free_page() with kfree(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/635405e4-9423-4a25-a6e7-e03c8ea0bcbe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260701-b4-drivers-ethernet-v1-2-58776615db6e@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_gnss.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_gnss.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_gnss.c index 8fd954f1ebd6..7d21c3417b0b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_gnss.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_gnss.c @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ /* Copyright (C) 2021-2022, Intel Corporation. */ #include "ice.h" +#include #include "ice_lib.h" /** @@ -124,7 +125,7 @@ static void ice_gnss_read(struct kthread_work *work) data_len = min_t(typeof(data_len), data_len, PAGE_SIZE); - buf = (char *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL); + buf = kzalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); if (!buf) { err = -ENOMEM; goto requeue; @@ -151,7 +152,7 @@ static void ice_gnss_read(struct kthread_work *work) count, i); delay = ICE_GNSS_TIMER_DELAY_TIME; free_buf: - free_page((unsigned long)buf); + kfree(buf); requeue: kthread_queue_delayed_work(gnss->kworker, &gnss->read_work, delay); if (err)