The patch titled
Subject: mm: remove __krealloc
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-remove-__krealloc.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-remove-__krealloc.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-remove-__krealloc.patch
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From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: remove __krealloc
Since 5.5-rc1 the last user of this function is gone, so remove the
functionality.
See commit
2ad9d7747c10 ("netfilter: conntrack: free extension area immediately")
for details.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191212223442.22141-1-fw@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/slab.h | 1 -
mm/slab_common.c | 22 ----------------------
scripts/coccinelle/free/devm_free.cocci | 4 ----
3 files changed, 27 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/slab.h~mm-remove-__krealloc
+++ a/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -184,7 +184,6 @@ void memcg_deactivate_kmem_caches(struct
/*
* Common kmalloc functions provided by all allocators
*/
-void * __must_check __krealloc(const void *, size_t, gfp_t);
void * __must_check krealloc(const void *, size_t, gfp_t);
void kfree(const void *);
void kzfree(const void *);
--- a/mm/slab_common.c~mm-remove-__krealloc
+++ a/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -1676,28 +1676,6 @@ static __always_inline void *__do_kreall
}
/**
- * __krealloc - like krealloc() but don't free @p.
- * @p: object to reallocate memory for.
- * @new_size: how many bytes of memory are required.
- * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
- *
- * This function is like krealloc() except it never frees the originally
- * allocated buffer. Use this if you don't want to free the buffer immediately
- * like, for example, with RCU.
- *
- * Return: pointer to the allocated memory or %NULL in case of error
- */
-void *__krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
-{
- if (unlikely(!new_size))
- return ZERO_SIZE_PTR;
-
- return __do_krealloc(p, new_size, flags);
-
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(__krealloc);
-
-/**
* krealloc - reallocate memory. The contents will remain unchanged.
* @p: object to reallocate memory for.
* @new_size: how many bytes of memory are required.
--- a/scripts/coccinelle/free/devm_free.cocci~mm-remove-__krealloc
+++ a/scripts/coccinelle/free/devm_free.cocci
@@ -95,8 +95,6 @@ position p;
|
kzfree@p(x)
|
- __krealloc@p(x, ...)
-|
krealloc@p(x, ...)
|
free_pages@p(x, ...)
@@ -120,8 +118,6 @@ position p != safe.p;
|
* kzfree@p(x)
|
-* __krealloc@p(x, ...)
-|
* krealloc@p(x, ...)
|
* free_pages@p(x, ...)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from fw@xxxxxxxxx are
mm-remove-__krealloc.patch
