Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] mm/slab_common: allow NULL cache pointer in kmem_cache_destroy()

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Thu Aug 06 2015 - 10:22:36 EST


On (06/19/15 08:50), Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
>
> > On (06/17/15 16:14), David Rientjes wrote:
> > [..]
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > LKML-reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/8/583
> > >
> > > Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > kmem_cache_destroy() isn't a fastpath, this is long overdue. Now where's
> > > the patch to remove the NULL checks from the callers? ;)
> > >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Yes, Julia Lawall (Cc'd) already has a patch set ready for submission.
>
> I'll refresh it and send it shortly.
>

I'll re-up this thread.

Julia, do you want to wait until these 3 patches will be merged to
Linus's tree (just to be on a safe side, so someone's tree (out of sync
with linux-next) will not go crazy)?

-ss
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