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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: acme@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, jolsa@kernel.org,
	a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, tglx@linutronix.de, dsahern@gmail.com,
	namhyung@kernel.org, jolsa@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com
Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:perf/core] perf tools: Fix locale handling in pmu parsing
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 14:23:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160308132340.GA7914@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tip-f9a5978ac4ede901fa73d7c28ae1c5d89bc2a46a@git.kernel.org>


* tip-bot for Jiri Olsa <tipbot@zytor.com> wrote:

> @@ -135,6 +146,8 @@ static int perf_pmu__parse_scale(struct perf_pmu_alias *alias, char *dir, char *
>  	/* restore locale */
>  	setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, lc);
>  
> +	free((char *) lc);
> +

Btw., minor side note: why does 'lc' have to be case to 'char *'?

In the kernel kfree() takes 'const void *':

  include/linux/slab.h:void kfree(const void *);

which will accept all pointer types. That avoids unnecessary and fragile type 
casts.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-08 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-29 19:21 [GIT PULL 00/11] perf/core improvements and fixes Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-02-29 19:21 ` [PATCH 01/11] perf tools: Fix python extension build Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-02-29 19:21 ` [PATCH 02/11] perf trace: Check and discard not only 'nr' but also '__syscall_nr' Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-02-29 19:21 ` [PATCH 03/11] tracing/syscalls: Rename "/format" tracepoint field name "nr" to "__syscall_nr: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-02-29 19:22 ` [PATCH 04/11] tools lib traceevent: Split pevent_print_event() into specific functionality functions Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-02-29 19:22 ` [PATCH 05/11] perf stat: Check existence of frontend/backed stalled cycles Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-03-03  8:28   ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-03 12:49     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-03-03 12:50       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-02-29 19:22 ` [PATCH 06/11] perf data: Support converting data from bpf_perf_event_output() Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-02-29 19:22 ` [PATCH 07/11] perf data: Explicitly set byte order for integer types Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-02-29 19:22 ` [PATCH 08/11] perf record: Use WARN_ONCE to replace 'if' condition Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-02-29 19:22 ` [PATCH 09/11] perf record: Extract synthesize code to record__synthesize() Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-02-29 19:22 ` [PATCH 10/11] perf record: Introduce record__finish_output() to finish a perf.data Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-02-29 19:22 ` [PATCH 11/11] perf record: Ensure return non-zero rc when mmap fail Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-03-03  8:21 ` [GIT PULL 00/11] perf/core improvements and fixes Ingo Molnar
2016-03-03  9:15   ` Jiri Olsa
2016-03-03  9:53     ` [PATCH] perf tools: Fix locale handling in pmu parsing Jiri Olsa
2016-03-03 16:20       ` Andi Kleen
2016-03-05  8:14       ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2016-03-08 13:23         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2016-03-08 18:42           ` [PATCH][perf/core] perf tools: Omit unnecessary cast in perf_pmu__parse_scale Jiri Olsa
2016-03-09 13:43             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-03-11  8:46             ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2016-03-03 14:38   ` [GIT PULL 00/11] perf/core improvements and fixes Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-03-05  8:08     ` Ingo Molnar

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