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rcu: Introduce single argument kvfree_rcu() interface
Make kvfree_rcu() capable of freeing objects that will not
embed an rcu_head within it. This saves storage overhead in
such objects. Reclaiming headless objects this way requires
only a single argument (pointer to the object).
After this patch, there are two ways to use kvfree_rcu():
a) kvfree_rcu(ptr, rhf);
struct X {
struct rcu_head rhf;
unsigned char data[100];
};
void *ptr = kvmalloc(sizeof(struct X), GFP_KERNEL);
if (ptr)
kvfree_rcu(ptr, rhf);
b) kvfree_rcu(ptr);
void *ptr = kvmalloc(some_bytes, GFP_KERNEL);
if (ptr)
kvfree_rcu(ptr);
Note that the headless usage (example b) can only be used in a code
that can sleep. This is enforced by the CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
option.
Co-developed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
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