return 0;
 }
 
+static void guc_capture_create_prealloc_nodes(struct intel_guc *guc);
+
 int
 intel_guc_capture_getlist(struct intel_guc *guc, u32 owner, u32 type, u32 classid,
                          void **outptr)
                return cache->status;
        }
 
+       /*
+        * ADS population of input registers is a good
+        * time to pre-allocate cachelist output nodes
+        */
+       guc_capture_create_prealloc_nodes(guc);
+
        ret = intel_guc_capture_getlistsize(guc, owner, type, classid, &size);
        if (ret) {
                cache->is_valid = true;
  *                                err-state-captured register-list we find, we alloc 'C':
  *      --> alloc C: A capture-output-node structure that includes misc capture info along
  *                   with 3 register list dumps (global, engine-class and engine-instance)
- *                   This node is dynamically allocated and populated with the error-capture
+ *                   This node is created from a pre-allocated list of blank nodes in
+ *                   guc->capture->cachelist and populated with the error-capture
  *                   data from GuC and then it's added into guc->capture->outlist linked
  *                   list. This list is used for matchup and printout by i915_gpu_coredump
  *                   and err_print_gt, (when user invokes the error capture sysfs).
 }
 
 static void
-guc_capture_delete_nodes(struct intel_guc *guc)
+guc_capture_delete_prealloc_nodes(struct intel_guc *guc)
 {
+       struct __guc_capture_parsed_output *n, *ntmp;
+
        /*
         * NOTE: At the end of driver operation, we must assume that we
-        * have nodes in outlist from unclaimed error capture events
-        * that occurred prior to shutdown.
+        * have prealloc nodes in both the cachelist as well as outlist
+        * if unclaimed error capture events occurred prior to shutdown.
         */
-       if (!list_empty(&guc->capture->outlist)) {
-               struct __guc_capture_parsed_output *n, *ntmp;
+       list_for_each_entry_safe(n, ntmp, &guc->capture->outlist, link)
+               guc_capture_delete_one_node(guc, n);
 
-               list_for_each_entry_safe(n, ntmp, &guc->capture->outlist, link)
-                       guc_capture_delete_one_node(guc, n);
-       }
+       list_for_each_entry_safe(n, ntmp, &guc->capture->cachelist, link)
+               guc_capture_delete_one_node(guc, n);
 }
 
 static void
        guc_capture_add_node_to_list(node, &gc->outlist);
 }
 
+static void
+guc_capture_add_node_to_cachelist(struct intel_guc_state_capture *gc,
+                                 struct __guc_capture_parsed_output *node)
+{
+       guc_capture_add_node_to_list(node, &gc->cachelist);
+}
+
 static void
 guc_capture_init_node(struct intel_guc *guc, struct __guc_capture_parsed_output *node)
 {
+       struct guc_mmio_reg *tmp[GUC_CAPTURE_LIST_TYPE_MAX];
+       int i;
+
+       for (i = 0; i < GUC_CAPTURE_LIST_TYPE_MAX; ++i) {
+               tmp[i] = node->reginfo[i].regs;
+               memset(tmp[i], 0, sizeof(struct guc_mmio_reg) *
+                      guc->capture->max_mmio_per_node);
+       }
+       memset(node, 0, sizeof(*node));
+       for (i = 0; i < GUC_CAPTURE_LIST_TYPE_MAX; ++i)
+               node->reginfo[i].regs = tmp[i];
+
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&node->link);
 }
 
+static struct __guc_capture_parsed_output *
+guc_capture_get_prealloc_node(struct intel_guc *guc)
+{
+       struct __guc_capture_parsed_output *found = NULL;
+
+       if (!list_empty(&guc->capture->cachelist)) {
+               struct __guc_capture_parsed_output *n, *ntmp;
+
+               /* get first avail node from the cache list */
+               list_for_each_entry_safe(n, ntmp, &guc->capture->cachelist, link) {
+                       found = n;
+                       list_del(&n->link);
+                       break;
+               }
+       } else {
+               struct __guc_capture_parsed_output *n, *ntmp;
+
+               /* traverse down and steal back the oldest node already allocated */
+               list_for_each_entry_safe(n, ntmp, &guc->capture->outlist, link) {
+                       found = n;
+               }
+               if (found)
+                       list_del(&found->link);
+       }
+       if (found)
+               guc_capture_init_node(guc, found);
+
+       return found;
+}
+
 static struct __guc_capture_parsed_output *
 guc_capture_alloc_one_node(struct intel_guc *guc)
 {
        struct __guc_capture_parsed_output *new;
+       int i;
 
        new = kzalloc(sizeof(*new), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!new)
                return NULL;
 
+       for (i = 0; i < GUC_CAPTURE_LIST_TYPE_MAX; ++i) {
+               new->reginfo[i].regs = kcalloc(guc->capture->max_mmio_per_node,
+                                              sizeof(struct guc_mmio_reg), GFP_KERNEL);
+               if (!new->reginfo[i].regs) {
+                       while (i)
+                               kfree(new->reginfo[--i].regs);
+                       return NULL;
+               }
+       }
        guc_capture_init_node(guc, new);
 
        return new;
        struct __guc_capture_parsed_output *new;
        int i;
 
-       new = guc_capture_alloc_one_node(guc);
+       new = guc_capture_get_prealloc_node(guc);
        if (!new)
                return NULL;
        if (!original)
        /* copy reg-lists that we want to clone */
        for (i = 0; i < GUC_CAPTURE_LIST_TYPE_MAX; ++i) {
                if (keep_reglist_mask & BIT(i)) {
-                       new->reginfo[i].regs = kcalloc(original->reginfo[i].num_regs,
-                                                      sizeof(struct guc_mmio_reg), GFP_KERNEL);
-                       if (!new->reginfo[i].regs)
-                               goto bail_clone;
+                       GEM_BUG_ON(original->reginfo[i].num_regs  >
+                                  guc->capture->max_mmio_per_node);
 
                        memcpy(new->reginfo[i].regs, original->reginfo[i].regs,
                               original->reginfo[i].num_regs * sizeof(struct guc_mmio_reg));
+
                        new->reginfo[i].num_regs = original->reginfo[i].num_regs;
                        new->reginfo[i].vfid  = original->reginfo[i].vfid;
 
        }
 
        return new;
+}
 
-bail_clone:
-       for (i = 0; i < GUC_CAPTURE_LIST_TYPE_MAX; ++i)
-               kfree(new->reginfo[i].regs);
-       kfree(new);
-       return NULL;
+static void
+__guc_capture_create_prealloc_nodes(struct intel_guc *guc)
+{
+       struct __guc_capture_parsed_output *node = NULL;
+       struct drm_i915_private *i915 = guc_to_gt(guc)->i915;
+       int i;
+
+       for (i = 0; i < PREALLOC_NODES_MAX_COUNT; ++i) {
+               node = guc_capture_alloc_one_node(guc);
+               if (!node) {
+                       drm_warn(&i915->drm, "GuC Capture pre-alloc-cache failure\n");
+                       /* dont free the priors, use what we got and cleanup at shutdown */
+                       return;
+               }
+               guc_capture_add_node_to_cachelist(guc->capture, node);
+       }
+}
+
+static int
+guc_get_max_reglist_count(struct intel_guc *guc)
+{
+       int i, j, k, tmp, maxregcount = 0;
+
+       for (i = 0; i < GUC_CAPTURE_LIST_INDEX_MAX; ++i) {
+               for (j = 0; j < GUC_CAPTURE_LIST_TYPE_MAX; ++j) {
+                       for (k = 0; k < GUC_MAX_ENGINE_CLASSES; ++k) {
+                               if (j == GUC_CAPTURE_LIST_TYPE_GLOBAL && k > 0)
+                                       continue;
+
+                               tmp = guc_cap_list_num_regs(guc->capture, i, j, k);
+                               if (tmp > maxregcount)
+                                       maxregcount = tmp;
+                       }
+               }
+       }
+       if (!maxregcount)
+               maxregcount = PREALLOC_NODES_DEFAULT_NUMREGS;
+
+       return maxregcount;
+}
+
+static void
+guc_capture_create_prealloc_nodes(struct intel_guc *guc)
+{
+       /* skip if we've already done the pre-alloc */
+       if (guc->capture->max_mmio_per_node)
+               return;
+
+       guc->capture->max_mmio_per_node = guc_get_max_reglist_count(guc);
+       __guc_capture_create_prealloc_nodes(guc);
 }
 
 static int
                                guc_capture_add_node_to_outlist(guc->capture, node);
                                node = NULL;
                        } else if (datatype == GUC_CAPTURE_LIST_TYPE_ENGINE_CLASS &&
-                                  node->reginfo[GUC_CAPTURE_LIST_TYPE_ENGINE_CLASS].regs) {
+                                  node->reginfo[GUC_CAPTURE_LIST_TYPE_ENGINE_CLASS].num_regs) {
                                /* Add to list, clone node and duplicate global list */
                                guc_capture_add_node_to_outlist(guc->capture, node);
                                node = guc_capture_clone_node(guc, node,
                                                              GCAP_PARSED_REGLIST_INDEX_GLOBAL);
                        } else if (datatype == GUC_CAPTURE_LIST_TYPE_ENGINE_INSTANCE &&
-                                  node->reginfo[GUC_CAPTURE_LIST_TYPE_ENGINE_INSTANCE].regs) {
+                                  node->reginfo[GUC_CAPTURE_LIST_TYPE_ENGINE_INSTANCE].num_regs) {
                                /* Add to list, clone node and duplicate global + class lists */
                                guc_capture_add_node_to_outlist(guc->capture, node);
                                node = guc_capture_clone_node(guc, node,
                }
 
                if (!node) {
-                       node = guc_capture_alloc_one_node(guc);
+                       node = guc_capture_get_prealloc_node(guc);
                        if (!node) {
                                ret = -ENOMEM;
                                break;
                        break;
                }
 
-               regs = NULL;
                numregs = FIELD_GET(CAP_HDR_NUM_MMIOS, hdr.num_mmios);
-               if (numregs) {
-                       regs = kcalloc(numregs, sizeof(struct guc_mmio_reg), GFP_KERNEL);
-                       if (!regs) {
-                               ret = -ENOMEM;
-                               break;
-                       }
+               if (numregs > guc->capture->max_mmio_per_node) {
+                       drm_dbg(&i915->drm, "GuC Capture list extraction clipped by prealloc!\n");
+                       numregs = guc->capture->max_mmio_per_node;
                }
                node->reginfo[datatype].num_regs = numregs;
-               node->reginfo[datatype].regs = regs;
+               regs = node->reginfo[datatype].regs;
                i = 0;
                while (numregs--) {
                        if (guc_capture_log_get_register(guc, buf, ®s[i++])) {
                                break;
                        }
                }
-               /* else free it */
-               kfree(node);
+               if (node) /* else return it back to cache list */
+                       guc_capture_add_node_to_cachelist(guc->capture, node);
        }
        return ret;
 }
 
        guc_capture_free_ads_cache(guc->capture);
 
-       guc_capture_delete_nodes(guc);
+       guc_capture_delete_prealloc_nodes(guc);
 
        guc_capture_free_extlists(guc->capture->extlists);
        kfree(guc->capture->extlists);
        guc->capture->reglists = guc_capture_get_device_reglist(guc);
 
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&guc->capture->outlist);
+       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&guc->capture->cachelist);
 
        return 0;
 }