From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f49.google.com (mail-pa0-f49.google.com [209.85.220.49]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1358280245 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2015 10:30:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by pawu10 with SMTP id u10so64393740paw.1 for ; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 07:30:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-pa0-x22f.google.com (mail-pa0-x22f.google.com. [2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22f]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ng10si11705146pbc.253.2015.08.06.07.30.28 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 06 Aug 2015 07:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pawu10 with SMTP id u10so64393477paw.1 for ; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 07:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 23:29:28 +0900 From: Sergey Senozhatsky Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] mm/slab_common: allow NULL cache pointer in kmem_cache_destroy() Message-ID: <20150806142928.GD4292@swordfish> References: <1433851493-23685-1-git-send-email-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> <1433851493-23685-2-git-send-email-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> <20150617235205.GA3422@swordfish> <20150806142131.GB4292@swordfish> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Julia Lawall Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky , Sergey Senozhatsky , David Rientjes , Andrew Morton , Minchan Kim , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , Joonsoo Kim , Michal Hocko , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On (08/06/15 16:27), Julia Lawall wrote: [..] > > Julia, do you want to wait until these 3 patches will be merged to > > Linus's tree (just to be on a safe side, so someone's tree (out of sync > > with linux-next) will not go crazy)? > > I think it would be safer. Code may crash if the test is removed before > the function can tolerate it. > Agree. I'll re-up this thread later (once 4.3 merge window is closed). Thank you. -ss -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755959AbbHFOac (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2015 10:30:32 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f51.google.com ([209.85.220.51]:36014 "EHLO mail-pa0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755744AbbHFOa3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2015 10:30:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 23:29:28 +0900 From: Sergey Senozhatsky To: Julia Lawall Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky , Sergey Senozhatsky , David Rientjes , Andrew Morton , Minchan Kim , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , Joonsoo Kim , Michal Hocko , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] mm/slab_common: allow NULL cache pointer in kmem_cache_destroy() Message-ID: <20150806142928.GD4292@swordfish> References: <1433851493-23685-1-git-send-email-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> <1433851493-23685-2-git-send-email-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> <20150617235205.GA3422@swordfish> <20150806142131.GB4292@swordfish> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23+102 (2ca89bed6448) (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On (08/06/15 16:27), Julia Lawall wrote: [..] > > Julia, do you want to wait until these 3 patches will be merged to > > Linus's tree (just to be on a safe side, so someone's tree (out of sync > > with linux-next) will not go crazy)? > > I think it would be safer. Code may crash if the test is removed before > the function can tolerate it. > Agree. I'll re-up this thread later (once 4.3 merge window is closed). Thank you. -ss