From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: linux-coco@lists.linux.dev,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] mm/slab: Add __free() support for kvfree
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:46:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2023083034-grimace-panhandle-f332@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <169342401666.3934343.5520453508283712955.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com>
On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 12:33:36PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Allow for the declaration of variables that trigger kvfree() when they
> go out of scope. The check for NULL and call to kvfree() can be elided
> by the compiler in most cases, otherwise without the NULL check an
> unnecessary call to kvfree() may be emitted. Peter proposed a comment
> for this detail [1].
>
> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/20230816103102.GF980931@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net [1]
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> ---
> include/linux/slab.h | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-30 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-30 19:33 [PATCH v3 0/5] configfs-tsm: Attestation Report ABI Dan Williams
2023-08-30 19:33 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] virt: coco: Add a coco/Makefile and coco/Kconfig Dan Williams
2023-08-30 20:48 ` Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2023-08-30 19:33 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] configfs-tsm: Introduce a shared ABI for attestation reports Dan Williams
2023-08-30 20:45 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-08-30 20:57 ` Dan Williams
2023-08-30 22:08 ` Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2023-08-31 1:24 ` Dan Williams
2023-08-31 21:42 ` Dionna Amalie Glaze
2023-08-31 22:13 ` Dan Williams
2023-09-01 18:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-09-01 18:47 ` Dan Williams
2023-09-01 19:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-08-30 19:33 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] virt: sevguest: Prep for kernel internal {get, get_ext}_report() Dan Williams
2023-08-30 19:33 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] mm/slab: Add __free() support for kvfree Dan Williams
2023-08-30 20:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2023-09-07 8:59 ` Gupta, Pankaj
2023-08-30 19:33 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] virt: sevguest: Add TSM_REPORTS support for SNP_{GET, GET_EXT}_REPORT Dan Williams
2023-09-01 15:25 ` Jeremi Piotrowski
2023-09-01 16:38 ` Dan Williams
2023-09-04 2:14 ` Huang, Kai
2023-09-04 2:57 ` Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2023-09-05 23:21 ` Huang, Kai
2023-09-01 16:04 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] configfs-tsm: Attestation Report ABI Jeremi Piotrowski
2023-09-01 16:51 ` Dan Williams
2023-09-07 8:04 ` Samuel Ortiz
2023-09-25 19:26 ` Dan Williams
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