Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Nov 2015 16:23:37 -0800 (PST) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tree wide: Use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree() |
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On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> There are many locations that do > > if (memory_was_allocated_by_vmalloc) > vfree(ptr); > else > kfree(ptr); > > but kvfree() can handle both kmalloc()ed memory and vmalloc()ed memory > using is_vmalloc_addr(). Unless callers have special reasons, we can > replace this branch with kvfree(). Please check and reply if you found > problems. > > Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> > Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> # arm > Cc: <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org> # apei > Cc: <drbd-user@lists.linbit.com> # drbd > Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> # mspec > Cc: <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org> # drm > Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com> # lustre > Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com> # lustre > Cc: <codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu> # coda > Cc: <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org> # jffs2 > Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> # udf > Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org> # xattr > Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org> # ipc + mm > Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org> # ipv4
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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