linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: use kmem_cache instead of aligned stack allocations

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Message-ID: <20140523083847.4e039ddb@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 23 May 2014 08:38:47 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Cody P Schafer <cody@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, peterz@...radead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, michael@...erman.id.au,
	mingo@...hat.com, paulus@...ba.org, imunsie@....ibm.com,
	acme@...stprotocols.net, scottwood@...escale.com,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: use kmem_cache instead of aligned
 stack allocations

Hi Cody,

On Thu, 22 May 2014 15:29:08 -0700 Cody P Schafer <cody@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> -	*res = be64_to_cpu(result_buffer.result);
> +	*res = be64_to_cpu(result_buffer->result);
> +	kfree(result_buffer);
> +	kfree(request_buffer);
> +	return ret;

Why not just fall through here by removing the above 3 lines?

> +
> +out_hcall:
> +	kfree(result_buffer);
> +out_resb:
> +	kfree(request_buffer);
> +out_reqb:
>  	return ret;
>  }

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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