On Mon, 27 May 2024, 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 found the following functions. Do you want some other information, such as where they are called from? Ignore the -s at the beginning of some lines. Those are for emphasis. not to suggest to remove the code. I checked that the functions are only used in calls to call_rcu. Without more effort, Coccinelle only looks for functions defined in the same file. Here are the functions that are passed to call_rcu where the function is not defined in the same file: need definition for audit_free_rule_rcu need definition for __i915_gem_free_object_rcu need definition for io_eventfd_ops need definition for ip_vs_dest_dst_rcu_free need definition for __put_task_struct_rcu_cb need definition for radix_tree_node_rcu_free They all do something more, although radix_tree_node_rcu_free doesn't do much more (some memsets). julia diff -u -p /home/jll/linux/drivers/net/wireguard/allowedips.c /tmp/nothing/drivers/net/wireguard/allowedips.c --- /home/jll/linux/drivers/net/wireguard/allowedips.c +++ /tmp/nothing/drivers/net/wireguard/allowedips.c @@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ static void push_rcu(struct allowedips_n static void node_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu) { - kmem_cache_free(node_cache, container_of(rcu, struct allowedips_node, rcu)); } static void root_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu) diff -u -p /home/jll/linux/fs/ecryptfs/dentry.c /tmp/nothing/fs/ecryptfs/dentry.c --- /home/jll/linux/fs/ecryptfs/dentry.c +++ /tmp/nothing/fs/ecryptfs/dentry.c @@ -53,8 +53,6 @@ struct kmem_cache *ecryptfs_dentry_info_ static void ecryptfs_dentry_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *head) { - kmem_cache_free(ecryptfs_dentry_info_cache, - container_of(head, struct ecryptfs_dentry_info, rcu)); } /** diff -u -p /home/jll/linux/kernel/fork.c /tmp/nothing/kernel/fork.c --- /home/jll/linux/kernel/fork.c +++ /tmp/nothing/kernel/fork.c @@ -378,7 +378,6 @@ static struct kmem_cache *thread_stack_c static void thread_stack_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rh) { - kmem_cache_free(thread_stack_cache, rh); } static void thread_stack_delayed_free(struct task_struct *tsk) diff -u -p /home/jll/linux/kernel/workqueue.c /tmp/nothing/kernel/workqueue.c --- /home/jll/linux/kernel/workqueue.c +++ /tmp/nothing/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -5024,8 +5024,6 @@ fail: static void rcu_free_pwq(struct rcu_head *rcu) { - kmem_cache_free(pwq_cache, - container_of(rcu, struct pool_workqueue, rcu)); } /* diff -u -p /home/jll/linux/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c /tmp/nothing/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c --- /home/jll/linux/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c +++ /tmp/nothing/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c @@ -130,7 +130,6 @@ static struct inet_peer *lookup(const st static void inetpeer_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *head) { - kmem_cache_free(peer_cachep, container_of(head, struct inet_peer, rcu)); } /* perform garbage collect on all items stacked during a lookup */ diff -u -p /home/jll/linux/net/ipv6/xfrm6_tunnel.c /tmp/nothing/net/ipv6/xfrm6_tunnel.c --- /home/jll/linux/net/ipv6/xfrm6_tunnel.c +++ /tmp/nothing/net/ipv6/xfrm6_tunnel.c @@ -180,8 +180,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(xfrm6_tunnel_alloc_spi); static void x6spi_destroy_rcu(struct rcu_head *head) { - kmem_cache_free(xfrm6_tunnel_spi_kmem, - container_of(head, struct xfrm6_tunnel_spi, rcu_head)); } static void xfrm6_tunnel_free_spi(struct net *net, xfrm_address_t *saddr) diff -u -p /home/jll/linux/security/security.c /tmp/nothing/security/security.c --- /home/jll/linux/security/security.c +++ /tmp/nothing/security/security.c @@ -1599,7 +1599,6 @@ static void inode_free_by_rcu(struct rcu /* * The rcu head is at the start of the inode blob */ - kmem_cache_free(lsm_inode_cache, head); } /**