On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 11:54:37AM +0100, Alexandra Winter wrote:

On 23.01.26 09:23, D. Wythe wrote:
Describe your changes in imperative mood.
https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html#describe-your-changes

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For SMCR_PHYS_CONT_BUFS, the allocation order is now capped to
MAX_PAGE_ORDER, ensures the attempts to allocate the largest possible
physically contiguous chunk instead of failing with an invalid order,
which also avoid redundant "try-fail-degrade" cycles in __smc_buf_create().

For SMCR_MIXED_BUFS, If it's order exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER, skips the
doomed physical allocation attempt and fallback to virtual memory
immediately.

Proposal for a version in imperative mood (iiuc):
"
For SMCR_PHYS_CONT_BUFS, cap the allocation order to MAX_PAGE_ORDER. This
ensures the attempts to allocate the largest possible physically contiguous
chunk succeed, instead of failing with an invalid order. This also avoids
redundant "try-fail-degrade" cycles in __smc_buf_create().

For SMCR_MIXED_BUFS, if its order exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER, skip the doomed
physical allocation attempt and fallback to virtual memory immediately.
"

quoted

Signed-off-by: D. Wythe <alibuda@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Dust Li <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com>

Other than that: LGTM
Reviewed-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>

Hi Alexandra,

Thank you for your review and for providing the refined description.
I will use your suggested wording for the commit message in V2.

Best regards,
D. Wythe