In [1], Christoph Hellwig has proposed to remove the wrappers in include/linux/pci-dma-compat.h. Some reasons why this API should be removed have been given by Julia Lawall in [2]. In all these places where some memory is allocated GFP_KERNEL can be used because they already call mpt_config() which has an explicit might_sleep(). [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-janitors/20200421081257.GA131897@infradead.org/ [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-janitors/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2007120902170.2424@hadrien/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/443b81ecb08b2fe6f789bb2fdff13a53c809e401.1641500561.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>