From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, drbd-user@lists.linbit.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>,
Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>,
codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, Boris Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tree wide: Use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree()
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 22:48:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5253459.IxnqkcU2vL@vostro.rjw.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1447070170-8512-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
On Monday, November 09, 2015 08:56:10 PM 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.
ACK for the ACPI changes (and CCing Tony and Boris for the heads-up as they
are way more famailiar with the APEI code than I am).
Thanks,
Rafael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-09 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-09 11:56 Tetsuo Handa
2015-11-09 12:11 ` Jan Kara
2015-11-09 16:26 ` David Miller
2015-11-09 16:07 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-11-09 20:41 ` Dilger, Andreas
2015-11-09 21:48 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2015-11-09 23:25 ` Luck, Tony
2015-11-10 13:34 ` [DRBD-user] " Lars Ellenberg
2015-11-19 0:23 ` David Rientjes
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-11-07 11:44 Tetsuo Handa
2015-11-07 18:12 ` Joe Perches
2015-11-07 20:05 ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-11-07 20:13 ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-11-08 5:04 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-11-08 5:30 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-11-08 20:11 ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-11-09 10:48 ` Michal Hocko
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