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From: "Gupta, Pankaj" <pankaj.gupta@amd.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>, linux-coco@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] mm/slab: Add __free() support for kvfree
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 10:59:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bd6bbbb-25d1-c74a-b5df-6cc914430690@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <169342401666.3934343.5520453508283712955.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com>

On 8/30/2023 9:33 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> Allow for the declaration of variables that trigger kvfree() when they
> go out of scope. The check for NULL and call to kvfree() can be elided
> by the compiler in most cases, otherwise without the NULL check an
> unnecessary call to kvfree() may be emitted. Peter proposed a comment
> for this detail [1].
> 
> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/20230816103102.GF980931@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net [1]
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> ---
>   include/linux/slab.h |    2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
> index 848c7c82ad5a..241025367943 100644
> --- a/include/linux/slab.h
> +++ b/include/linux/slab.h
> @@ -746,6 +746,8 @@ static inline __alloc_size(1, 2) void *kvcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t fla
>   extern void *kvrealloc(const void *p, size_t oldsize, size_t newsize, gfp_t flags)
>   		      __realloc_size(3);
>   extern void kvfree(const void *addr);
> +DEFINE_FREE(kvfree, void *, if (_T) kvfree(_T))
> +
>   extern void kvfree_sensitive(const void *addr, size_t len);
>   
>   unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *s);
> 
> 
Liked this patch and use in the patch5. Still cannot comment on the 
attestation part of things. So, for this patch:

Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@amd.com>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-09-07 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-30 19:33 [PATCH v3 0/5] configfs-tsm: Attestation Report ABI Dan Williams
2023-08-30 19:33 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] virt: coco: Add a coco/Makefile and coco/Kconfig Dan Williams
2023-08-30 20:48   ` Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2023-08-30 19:33 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] configfs-tsm: Introduce a shared ABI for attestation reports Dan Williams
2023-08-30 20:45   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-08-30 20:57     ` Dan Williams
2023-08-30 22:08   ` Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2023-08-31  1:24     ` Dan Williams
2023-08-31 21:42   ` Dionna Amalie Glaze
2023-08-31 22:13     ` Dan Williams
2023-09-01 18:06       ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-09-01 18:47         ` Dan Williams
2023-09-01 19:06   ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-08-30 19:33 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] virt: sevguest: Prep for kernel internal {get, get_ext}_report() Dan Williams
2023-08-30 19:33 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] mm/slab: Add __free() support for kvfree Dan Williams
2023-08-30 20:46   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-09-07  8:59   ` Gupta, Pankaj [this message]
2023-08-30 19:33 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] virt: sevguest: Add TSM_REPORTS support for SNP_{GET, GET_EXT}_REPORT Dan Williams
2023-09-01 15:25   ` Jeremi Piotrowski
2023-09-01 16:38     ` Dan Williams
2023-09-04  2:14       ` Huang, Kai
2023-09-04  2:57         ` Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2023-09-05 23:21           ` Huang, Kai
2023-09-01 16:04 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] configfs-tsm: Attestation Report ABI Jeremi Piotrowski
2023-09-01 16:51   ` Dan Williams
2023-09-07  8:04     ` Samuel Ortiz
2023-09-25 19:26       ` Dan Williams

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