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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm: Add free()
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 16:56:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180325235603.GA18737@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180323151421.GC5624@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 08:14:21AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 04:33:24PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> > > +	page = virt_to_head_page(ptr);
> > > +	if (likely(PageSlab(page)))
> > > +		return kmem_cache_free(page->slab_cache, (void *)ptr);
> > 
> > It seems slab_cache is not generic for all types of slabs. SLOB does not care about it:
> 
> Oof.  I was sure I checked that.  You're quite right that it doesn't ...
> this should fix that problem:

This patch was complete rubbish.  The point of SLOB is that it mixes
sizes within the same page, and doesn't store the size when allocating
from a slab.  So there is no way to tell.  I'm going to think about this
some more.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-25 23:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-22 19:58 [PATCH 0/4] Add free() function Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-22 19:58 ` [PATCH 1/4] decompression: Rename malloc and free Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-22 19:58 ` [PATCH 2/4] Rename 'free' functions Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-22 19:58 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm: Add free() Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-23  8:04   ` Rasmus Villemoes
2018-03-23 14:34     ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-03  8:50       ` Pavel Machek
2018-04-03 11:41         ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-23 13:33   ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-03-23 15:14     ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-23 15:49       ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-03-23 16:15       ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-25 23:56       ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2018-03-24  7:38   ` kbuild test robot
2018-03-22 19:58 ` [PATCH 4/4] rcu: Switch to using free() instead of kfree() Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-24  7:07   ` kbuild test robot
2018-03-24  8:20   ` kbuild test robot

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