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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:46:41 +0200
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
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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>