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

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Sat Jun 20 2015 - 12:25:47 EST




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.

The patch for making these functions able to tolerate NULL doesn't seem to
be in linux-next yet, so I will wait until it appears.

julia
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