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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Shang XiaoJing <shangxiaojing@huawei.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, andy.shevchenko@gmail.com,
	ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next v4] staging: fwserial: Switch to kfree_rcu() API
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 12:24:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yyg1XmNeRUaVg9nQ@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220919091056.29527-1-shangxiaojing@huawei.com>

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 05:10:56PM +0800, Shang XiaoJing wrote:
> Instead of invoking a synchronize_rcu() to free a pointer after a grace
> period, we can directly make use of a new API that does the same but in
> a more efficient way.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shang XiaoJing <shangxiaojing@huawei.com>
> ---
> Changelog:
> v3: the first version of the PATCH
> v1: v3 resent as v1
> v2: use kfree_rcu() instead of kvfree_rcu() for clarity
> v4: resend v2 as v4 to avoid versioning confusion

LOL...  I was still very confused about the versioning but I think the
patch is correct now.

Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

regards,
dan carpenter


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-19  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-19  9:10 [PATCH -next v4] staging: fwserial: Switch to kfree_rcu() API Shang XiaoJing
2022-09-19  9:11 ` Greg KH
2022-09-19  9:43   ` shangxiaojing
2022-09-19 10:27     ` Dan Carpenter
2022-09-19 10:58       ` shangxiaojing
2022-09-20 12:04       ` shangxiaojing
2022-09-19  9:24 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]

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