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FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; TAGGED_RCPT(0.00)[]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_BLOCKED_OPENRESOLVER(0.00)[2a07:de40:b281:106:10:150:64:167:received]; R_RATELIMIT(0.00)[to_ip_from(RLo39o19myzc71a6h1g6fiybuc)]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; DBL_BLOCKED_OPENRESOLVER(0.00)[imap1.dmz-prg2.suse.org:helo,imap1.dmz-prg2.suse.org:rdns,suse.cz:dkim,suse.cz:mid] X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -3.01 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 1318B5BDA9 X-Rspamd-Action: no action X-Rspamd-Server: rspamd2.dmz-prg2.suse.org X-Spam-Level: On 2/6/26 10:34, Harry Yoo wrote: > These are a few improvements for k[v]free_rcu() API, which were suggested > by Alexei Starovoitov. > > [ To kmemleak folks: I'm going to teach delete_object_full() and > paint_ptr() to ignore cases when the object does not exist. > Could you please let me know if the way it's done in patch 3 > looks good? Only part 2 is relevant to you. ] > > Although I've put some effort into providing a decent quality > implementation, I'd like you to consider this as a proof-of-concept > and let's discuss how best we could tackle those problems: > > 1) Allow an 8-byte field to be used as an alternative to > struct rcu_head (16-byte) for 2-argument kvfree_rcu() > 2) kmalloc_nolock() -> kfree[_rcu]() support > 3) Add kfree_rcu_nolock() for NMI context Since you went bravely into this area, I'd like to suggest some more :) - teach CONFIG_KVFREE_RCU_BATCHED to handle kfree_rcu sheaves after they fill, instead of the standard call_rcu() handling - make kvfree_call_rcu() -> kfree_rcu_sheaf() compatible with PREEMPT_RT Thanks, Vlastimil