Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Jul 2020 18:41:54 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] devres: provide devm_krealloc() |
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On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 06:38:10PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 3:11 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 2:42 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman > > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 08:50:07AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > > > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> > > > > > > > > Implement the managed variant of krealloc(). This function works with > > > > all memory allocated by devm_kmalloc() (or devres functions using it > > > > implicitly like devm_kmemdup(), devm_kstrdup() etc.). > > > > > > > > Managed realloc'ed chunks can be manually released with devm_kfree(). > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> > > > > [snip!] > > > > > > > > That's a lot of logic that does not seem to match up with the krealloc() > > > logic in mm/slab_common.c, are you sure we need to do all of that? > > > > > > > What are you referring to exactly? The check for rodata? It's because > > devm_kfree() handles this case, while regular kfree() (or krealloc()) > > doesn't - there's kfree_const() but no devm_kfree_const(). > > > > > Who wants this? > > > > The hwmon commit I mentioned in my response to patch 6/6 explicitly > > mentions the lack of this helper. > > > > Bartosz > > Hi Greg, > > As we've established in the discussion under the iio patch that there > will in fact be more users of this - can this now be merged too?
Sorry, it's still in my queue, along with 500+ other patches :)
it's not lost...
thanks,
greg k-h
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