Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:46:41 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] mm/slab: Add __free() support for kvfree |
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 12:33:36PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > Allow for the declaration of variables that trigger kvfree() when they > go out of scope. The check for NULL and call to kvfree() can be elided > by the compiler in most cases, otherwise without the NULL check an > unnecessary call to kvfree() may be emitted. Peter proposed a comment > for this detail [1]. > > Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/20230816103102.GF980931@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net [1] > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> > --- > include/linux/slab.h | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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