From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qk0-f197.google.com (mail-qk0-f197.google.com [209.85.220.197]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB6246B02E4 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2018 03:20:25 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-qk0-f197.google.com with SMTP id c135so13332qkb.10 for ; Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:20:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com. [148.163.158.5]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f47si992074qtc.420.2018.02.07.00.20.25 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:20:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from pps.filterd (m0098416.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w178JsjS011520 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2018 03:20:24 -0500 Received: from e11.ny.us.ibm.com (e11.ny.us.ibm.com [129.33.205.201]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2fypywesvp-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 07 Feb 2018 03:20:24 -0500 Received: from localhost by e11.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 7 Feb 2018 03:20:23 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 00:20:29 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] rcu: Transform kfree_rcu() into kvfree_rcu() Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <151791170164.5994.8253310844733420079.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20180207021703.GC3617@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20180207042334.GA16175@bombadil.infradead.org> <20180207050200.GH3617@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20180207075409.GA5726@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180207075409.GA5726@localhost> Message-Id: <20180207082029.GJ3617@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Josh Triplett Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Kirill Tkhai , rostedt@goodmis.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, jiangshanlai@gmail.com, mingo@redhat.com, cl@linux.com, penberg@kernel.org, rientjes@google.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, brouer@redhat.com, rao.shoaib@oracle.com On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 11:54:09PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 09:02:00PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 08:23:34PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 06:17:03PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > So it is OK to kvmalloc() something and pass it to either kfree() or > > > > kvfree(), and it had better be OK to kvmalloc() something and pass it > > > > to kvfree(). > > > > > > > > Is it OK to kmalloc() something and pass it to kvfree()? > > > > > > Yes, it absolutely is. > > > > > > void kvfree(const void *addr) > > > { > > > if (is_vmalloc_addr(addr)) > > > vfree(addr); > > > else > > > kfree(addr); > > > } > > > > > > > If so, is it really useful to have two different names here, that is, > > > > both kfree_rcu() and kvfree_rcu()? > > > > > > I think it's handy to have all three of kvfree_rcu(), kfree_rcu() and > > > vfree_rcu() available in the API for the symmetry of calling kmalloc() > > > / kfree_rcu(). > > > > > > Personally, I would like us to rename kvfree() to just free(), and have > > > malloc(x) be an alias to kvmalloc(x, GFP_KERNEL), but I haven't won that > > > fight yet. > > > > But why not just have the existing kfree_rcu() API cover both kmalloc() > > and kvmalloc()? Perhaps I am not in the right forums, but I am not hearing > > anyone arguing that the RCU API has too few members. ;-) > > I don't have any problem with having just `kvfree_rcu`, but having just > `kfree_rcu` seems confusingly asymmetric. I don't understand why kmalloc()/kvfree_rcu() would seem any less asymmetric than kvmalloc()/kfree_rcu(). > (Also, count me in favor of having just one "free" function, too.) We agree on that much, anyway. ;-) Thanx, Paul -- 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