On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 09:51:35PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > On Mon, 27 May 2024, Uladzislau Rezki wrote: > > > On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 12:27:14PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 10:13:40AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 27 May 2024, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > one bit from LSF/MM discussions is that there might be call_rcu users with a > > > > > callback that only does a kmem_cache_free() to a specific cache. Since SLOB > > > > > was removed, it's always ok to use kfree() and thus also kfree_rcu() on > > > > > allocations from kmem_cache_alloc() in addition to kmalloc(). Thus, such > > > > > call_rcu() users might be simplified to kfree_rcu(). I found some cases > > > > > semi-manually, but I'd expect coccinelle could help here so if anyone wants > > > > > to take this task, feel free to. > > > > > > > > Thanks for the suggestion! I will try to look into it. > > > > > > Thank you both! > > > > > I wanted to take an action on it but Julia was first. So, please go ahead :) > > If you want to try, please go ahead. We can compare results. > It is appreciated if you proceed. From my side i will keep an eye and if n it. If something is missed, which i can detect, i will let you know. Thanks. -- Uladzislau Rezki
