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Donenfeld" , Michal Hocko , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Jarkko Sakkinen , David Sterba , David Howells , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James Morris , kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org, David Rientjes , Waiman Long , Dan Carpenter , "Serge E. Hallyn" , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Weiner , Andrew Morton , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com, linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:53:50AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > To this larger audience and last week without reply: > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/573b3fbd5927c643920e1364230c296b23e7584d.camel@perches.com/ > > Are there _any_ fastpath uses of kfree or vfree? I worked on adding a 'free' a couple of years ago. That was capable of freeing percpu, vmalloc, kmalloc and alloc_pages memory. I ran into trouble when I tried to free kmem_cache_alloc memory -- it works for slab and slub, but not slob (because slob needs the size from the kmem_cache). My motivation for this was to change kfree_rcu() to just free_rcu(). > To eliminate these mispairings at a runtime cost of four > comparisons, should the kfree/vfree/kvfree/kfree_const > functions be consolidated into a single kfree? I would say to leave kfree() alone and just introduce free() as a new default. There's some weird places in the kernel that have a 'free' symbol of their own, but those should be renamed anyway.