Re: [PATCH] vdpa/mlx5: Use kvzalloc_flex() for MTT command memory
From: Dragos Tatulea
Date: Fri May 08 2026 - 11:16:30 EST
On Thu, May 07, 2026 at 10:18:37PM -0700, Rosen Penev wrote:
> The create mkey command memory embeds the MTT array as a flexible array
> member. Use kvzalloc_flex() to allocate it directly instead of open-coding
> the struct_size() calculation with kvcalloc().
>
> The MTT allocation still needs to be aligned to MLX5_VDPA_MTT_ALIGN bytes.
> Since each MTT entry is __be64, align the entry count directly and avoid
> carrying a separate byte length variable.
>
> Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5.5
> Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c | 7 +++----
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c
> index 42c2705077a6..6d02ccf9eb91 100644
> --- a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c
> +++ b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c
> @@ -221,11 +221,10 @@ static int create_direct_keys(struct mlx5_vdpa_dev *mvdev, struct mlx5_vdpa_mr *
>
> list_for_each_entry(dmr, &mr->head, list) {
> struct mlx5_create_mkey_mem *cmd_mem;
> - int mttlen, mttcount;
> + int mttcount;
>
> - mttlen = roundup(MLX5_ST_SZ_BYTES(mtt) * dmr->nsg, MLX5_VDPA_MTT_ALIGN);
> - mttcount = mttlen / sizeof(cmd_mem->mtt[0]);
> - cmd_mem = kvcalloc(1, struct_size(cmd_mem, mtt, mttcount), GFP_KERNEL);
> + mttcount = ALIGN(dmr->nsg, MLX5_VDPA_MTT_ALIGN / sizeof(cmd_mem->mtt[0]));
> + cmd_mem = kvzalloc_flex(*cmd_mem, mtt, mttcount);
> if (!cmd_mem) {
> err = -ENOMEM;
> goto done;
> --
> 2.54.0
>
Thanks for the patch. Code and commit message looks good.
Not sure about the Assisted-by tag, but that is not my call.
Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks,
Dragos