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Commit 1835f475 authored by Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)'s avatar Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) Committed by Paul E. McKenney
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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: default avatarJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarUladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
parent 3042f83f
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