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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>, Simon Derr <simon.derr@bull.net>,
	Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree() in kernel/cgroup.c
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:32:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49A25F30.9060305@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0902222254350.1236@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>

Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here's a small patch for kernel/cgroup.c
> 
> Removes a few pointless tests of pointer == 0 before kfree() in 
> kernel/cgroup.c.
> If the pointer we hand to kfree() is 0, then kfree() is a noop, so there 
> is no need to test.
> 
> Reduces object file size a bit : 
> 
> Before:
> $ size kernel/cgroup.o
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   21593    7804    4924   34321    8611 kernel/cgroup.o
> After:
> $ size kernel/cgroup.o
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   21537    7744    4924   34205    859d kernel/cgroup.o
> 
> and source file size shrinks a bit too - always nice.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>

Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>



      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-23  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-22 22:05 [PATCH] Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree() in kernel/cgroup.c Jesper Juhl
2009-02-23  8:12 ` Paul Menage
2009-02-23  8:17   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-02-23  8:19     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-02-23  8:30   ` Li Zefan
2009-02-23 21:46   ` Jesper Juhl
2009-02-23  8:32 ` Li Zefan [this message]

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