linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree() in kernel/cgroup.c

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0902232241180.28481@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
Date:	Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:46:19 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>, Simon Derr <simon.derr@...l.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree() in 
 kernel/cgroup.c

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Paul Menage wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here's a small patch for kernel/cgroup.c
> >
> > Removes a few pointless tests of pointer == 0 before kfree() in
> > kernel/cgroup.c.
> > If the pointer we hand to kfree() is 0, then kfree() is a noop, so there
> > is no need to test.
> >
> > Reduces object file size a bit :
> >
> > Before:
> > $ size kernel/cgroup.o
> >   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> >  21593    7804    4924   34321    8611 kernel/cgroup.o
> > After:
> > $ size kernel/cgroup.o
> >   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> >  21537    7744    4924   34205    859d kernel/cgroup.o
> 
> Thanks. I'm a bit surprised that it also shrunk the data segment size
> (and in fact, by more than the text segment size). Any idea how that
> came about?
> 
Can't say I've got a good explanation for that, no.

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