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authorUladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>2020-05-25 23:47:59 +0200
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2020-06-29 11:59:26 -0700
commit1835f475e3518ade61e25a57572c78b953778656 (patch)
tree7c34637bc5e3bd79ef2dd70b42d2f1537b4bf66e /ipc
parent3042f83f19bec2e0cd356f72b39e4d816e8cd5ff (diff)
rcu: Introduce single argument kvfree_rcu() interface
Make kvfree_rcu() capable of freeing objects that will not embed an rcu_head within it. This saves storage overhead in such objects. Reclaiming headless objects this way requires only a single argument (pointer to the object). After this patch, there are two ways to use kvfree_rcu(): a) kvfree_rcu(ptr, rhf); struct X { struct rcu_head rhf; unsigned char data[100]; }; void *ptr = kvmalloc(sizeof(struct X), GFP_KERNEL); if (ptr) kvfree_rcu(ptr, rhf); b) kvfree_rcu(ptr); void *ptr = kvmalloc(some_bytes, GFP_KERNEL); if (ptr) kvfree_rcu(ptr); Note that the headless usage (example b) can only be used in a code that can sleep. This is enforced by the CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP option. Co-developed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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