linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab: deal with NULL pointers passed to kmem_cache

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Message-ID: <20070319214935.GY4892@waste.org>
Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:49:35 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	"ast@...dv.de" <ast@...dv.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: deal with NULL pointers passed to kmem_cache_free

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:41:00PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:25:36 +0200 (EET)
> "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On 3/19/2007, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > Would prefer to do:
> > > 
> > > static inline void kmem_cache_free_if_not_null(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
> > > 						void *objp)
> > > {
> > > 	if (objp)
> > > 		kmem_cache_free(cachep, objp);
> > > }
> > > 
> > > so that we don't add extra overhead to all the thousands of existing,
> > > well-behaved callsites.
> > 
> > That bloats kernel text all the same
> 
> But only for those callsites which choose to use it!  We avoid adding a
> test-and-branch to those thousands of callsite which don't need it.
> 
> This is a super-hot path.

You're right about that. Perhaps there's some clever exception
handling thing we can do to eliminate the hot-path overhead.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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