From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>,
josh@joshtriplett.org, rostedt@goodmis.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 20:09:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180208040929.GQ3617@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1802070854080.21329@nuc-kabylake>
On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 08:55:47AM -0600, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, 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().
>
> kvfree() is fine but not kfree().
Ah, even more fun, then! ;-)
Thanx, Paul
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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
2018-02-07 17:54 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-02-07 14:55 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-02-08 4:09 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
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