From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/bch: use flexible array member for xi_tab
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 15:50:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261111155014.7dea28cd8eb128c267566a61@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261111023458.72092-1-rosenp@gmail.com>
On Tue, 10 Nov 2026 18:34:58 -0800 Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com> wrote:
> Convert xi_tab in struct bch_control from a separately allocated
> pointer to a flexible array member trailing the struct. This co-locates
> the xi_tab data with the struct allocation, reducing the number of
> individual heap allocations and simplifying cleanup.
>
> The xi_tab member is moved to the end of the struct and changed from
> 'unsigned int *' to 'unsigned int []'. The allocation in bch_init()
> switches from kzalloc_obj + bch_alloc to kzalloc_flex, and the
> corresponding kfree in bch_free() is removed.
Looks OK, thanks.
Seems the only users of this code are some MTD drivers. So can you
please resend this and also cc the appropriate developers/lists?
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