Re: [PATCH 01/18] drivers core: Add I/O ASID allocator

[Andriy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 07:53:08AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 01:30:30PM +0300, Andriy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 03:04:36AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 01:00:49PM +0300, Andriy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > I think it makes sense to add a helper macro to rcupdate.h
> > > > (and we have several cases in kernel that can utilize it)
> > > > 
> > > > #define kfree_non_null_rcu(ptr, rcu_head)		\
> > > > 	do {						\
> > > > 		if (ptr)				\
> > > > 			kfree_rcu(ptr, rcu_head);	\
> > > > 	} while (0)
> > > > 
> > > > as a more common pattern for resource deallocators.
> > > 
> > > I think that should move straight into kfree_rcu.  
> > 
> > Possible. I didn't dare to offer this due to lack of knowledge how it's used in
> > other places.
> > 
> > > In general
> > > we expect *free* to deal with NULL pointers transparently, so we
> > > should do so here as well.
> > 
> > Exactly my point, thanks.
> 
> As shown below?

Looks pretty much good to me, thanks!
Reviewed-by: Andriy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

> 
> And now that you mention it, it is a bit surprising that no one has
> complained before.  ;-)
> 
> 							Thanx, Paul
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> commit 23ad938244968e9d2a8001a1c52887c113b182f6
> Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
> Date:   Tue Apr 9 07:48:18 2019 -0700
> 
>     rcu: Make kfree_rcu() ignore NULL pointers
>     
>     This commit makes the kfree_rcu() macro's semantics be consistent
>     with the likes of kfree() by adding a check for NULL pointers, so
>     that kfree_rcu(NULL, ...) is a no-op.
>     
>     Reported-by: Andriy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
>     Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> index 922bb6848813..c68649b9bcec 100644
> --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> @@ -828,9 +828,13 @@ static inline notrace void rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace(void)
>   * The BUILD_BUG_ON check must not involve any function calls, hence the
>   * checks are done in macros here.
>   */
> -#define kfree_rcu(ptr, rcu_head)					\
> -	__kfree_rcu(&((ptr)->rcu_head), offsetof(typeof(*(ptr)), rcu_head))
> -
> +#define kfree_rcu(ptr, rhf)						\
> +do {									\
> +	typeof (ptr) ___p = (ptr);					\
> +									\
> +	if (___p)							\
> +		__kfree_rcu(&((___p)->rhf), offsetof(typeof(*(ptr)), rhf)); \
> +} while (0)
>  
>  /*
>   * Place this after a lock-acquisition primitive to guarantee that
> 

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko