From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Cc: backports@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/21] compat: avoid usage of kvzalloc() in rhashtable.c
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 17:05:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1504710345.23905.14.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170821222817.17376-13-hauke@hauke-m.de> (sfid-20170822_002849_246894_A23843F2)
On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 00:28 +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> This reverts commit 12e8fd6fd3802 ("lib/rhashtable.c: use kvzalloc()
> in
> bucket_table_alloc() when possible") from upstream kernel.
> Kernel versions older that 4.12 do not have kvzalloc() try to avoid
> the
> usage of this.
Can't we backport these? There was a patch from AceLan Kao to do so in
a pretty simple fashion, but that should still be better than a patch?
johannes
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-21 22:27 [PATCH 00/21] backports: multiple changes for kernel 3.13-rc6 Hauke Mehrtens
2017-08-21 22:27 ` [PATCH 01/21] copy: do not copy files removed in kernel 4.13 Hauke Mehrtens
2017-09-06 14:56 ` Johannes Berg
2017-08-21 22:27 ` [PATCH 02/21] patches: header fix for st-nci not needed any more Hauke Mehrtens
2017-08-21 22:27 ` [PATCH 03/21] header: skbuff: add skb_put_zero(), skb_put_data() and skb_put_u8() Hauke Mehrtens
2017-08-21 22:28 ` [PATCH 04/21] header: skbuff: fix signature of skb_put(), skb_push() and () Hauke Mehrtens
2017-08-21 22:28 ` [PATCH 05/21] header: backport mii_ethtool_{get,set}_link_ksettings() Hauke Mehrtens
2017-08-21 22:28 ` [PATCH 06/21] patches: adapt the stat64 usage for usbnet Hauke Mehrtens
2017-08-21 22:28 ` [PATCH 07/21] header: add module_param_hw_array() Hauke Mehrtens
2017-09-06 15:00 ` Johannes Berg
2017-08-21 22:28 ` [PATCH 08/21] header: backport devm_acpi_dev_add_driver_gpios() Hauke Mehrtens
2017-09-06 15:01 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-06 21:58 ` Hauke Mehrtens
2017-09-08 9:25 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-08 9:28 ` Johannes Berg
2017-08-21 22:28 ` [PATCH 09/21] header: add get_random_u32() Hauke Mehrtens
2017-08-21 22:28 ` [PATCH 10/21] header: rename wait_queue_entry_t to wait_queue_t Hauke Mehrtens
2017-08-21 22:28 ` [PATCH 11/21] backport: add __print_array() Hauke Mehrtens
2017-08-21 22:28 ` [PATCH 12/21] compat: avoid usage of kvzalloc() in rhashtable.c Hauke Mehrtens
2017-09-06 15:05 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2017-09-06 22:12 ` Hauke Mehrtens
2017-09-08 9:25 ` Johannes Berg
2017-08-21 22:28 ` [PATCH 13/21] patch: Allow usage of pci_error_handlers->reset_notify Hauke Mehrtens
2017-08-21 22:28 ` [PATCH 14/21] header: add offsetofend() Hauke Mehrtens
2017-08-21 22:28 ` [PATCH 15/21] dependencies: add deps for struct acpi_gpio_mapping Hauke Mehrtens
2017-08-21 22:28 ` [PATCH 16/21] patches: brcmfmac: fix netdev destructor Hauke Mehrtens
2017-09-06 15:05 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-07 7:48 ` Arend van Spriel
2017-09-07 9:04 ` compilation errors in ath10k driver with latest backports git KAVITA MATHUR
2017-09-07 9:17 ` Arend van Spriel
2017-09-13 19:36 ` [PATCH 16/21] patches: brcmfmac: fix netdev destructor Arend van Spriel
2017-09-14 7:21 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-17 22:00 ` Hauke Mehrtens
2017-09-18 7:16 ` Arend van Spriel
2017-08-21 22:28 ` [PATCH 17/21] patches: backport the probe_new for i2c drivers Hauke Mehrtens
2017-08-21 22:28 ` [PATCH 18/21] patches: adapt signature of proto_ops->accept Hauke Mehrtens
2017-08-21 22:28 ` [PATCH 19/21] header: add linux/refcount.h Hauke Mehrtens
2017-08-21 22:28 ` [PATCH 20/21] header: add dma_wmb() Hauke Mehrtens
2017-08-21 22:28 ` [PATCH 21/21] copy-list: add quantenna qtnfmac driver Hauke Mehrtens
2017-09-06 15:10 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-06 15:13 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-06 22:14 ` Hauke Mehrtens
2017-09-06 15:14 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-05 9:00 ` [PATCH 00/21] backports: multiple changes for kernel 3.13-rc6 Johannes Berg
2017-09-05 21:41 ` Hauke Mehrtens
2017-09-06 7:23 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-13 20:00 ` Arend van Spriel
2017-09-17 22:07 ` Hauke Mehrtens
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