From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>,
josh@joshtriplett.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
jiangshanlai@gmail.com, mingo@redhat.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
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] rcu: Transform kfree_rcu() into kvfree_rcu()
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 12:29:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180207122910.1a91a48e@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180207171936.GA12446@bombadil.infradead.org>
On Wed, 7 Feb 2018 09:19:36 -0800
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> > Please no, I hate subtle internal decisions like this. It makes
> > debugging much more difficult, when allocating dynamic sized variables.
> > When something works at one size but not the other.
>
> You know we already have kvmalloc()?
Yes, and the name suggests exactly what it does. It has both "k" and
"v" which tells me that if I use it it could be one or the other.
But a generic "malloc" or "free" that does things differently depending
on the size is a different story.
-- Steve
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-06 10:19 [PATCH 0/2] rcu: Transform kfree_rcu() into kvfree_rcu() Kirill Tkhai
2018-02-06 10:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Kirill Tkhai
2018-02-06 14:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-02-06 15:06 ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-02-06 15:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-02-06 10:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: Use kvfree_rcu() in update_memcg_params() Kirill Tkhai
2018-02-07 2:17 ` [PATCH 0/2] rcu: Transform kfree_rcu() into kvfree_rcu() Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-07 4:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-07 5:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-07 7:54 ` Josh Triplett
2018-02-07 8:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-07 7:57 ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-02-07 8:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-07 13:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-02-07 16:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-07 16:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-02-07 16:45 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-02-07 18:10 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-07 18:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-02-08 4:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-22 23:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-08 4:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-07 16:47 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-02-07 17:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-02-07 17:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-07 17:29 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2018-02-07 17:54 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-02-07 14:55 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-02-08 4:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
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