linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] RDMA/irdma: Use kvzalloc for paged memory DMA address array

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Message-ID: <20260126194655.GN13967@unreal>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:46:55 +0200
From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@...bdal.com>
Cc: mustafa.ismail@...el.com, shiraz.saleem@...el.com, jgg@...pe.ca,
	bilbao@...edu, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, carlos.bilbao@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RDMA/irdma: Use kvzalloc for paged memory DMA address
 array

On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 10:54:36AM -0800, Carlos Bilbao wrote:
> Allocate array chunk->dmainfo.dmaaddrs using kvzalloc() to allow the
> allocation to fall back to vmalloc when contiguous memory is unavailable
> (instead of failing and logging page allocation warnings).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao (Lambda) <carlos.bilbao@...nel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/utils.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

This patch doesn't apply to rdma/for-next.

Thanks