linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 14/17] rcu: Introduce 2 arg kvfree

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Date:   Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:12:23 -0700
From:   paulmck@...nel.org
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com, mingo@...nel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@...il.com>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 14/17] rcu: Introduce 2 arg kvfree_rcu() interface

From: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@...il.com>

kvmalloc() can allocate two types of objects: SLAB backed
and vmalloc backed. How it behaves depends on requested
object's size and memory pressure.

Add a kvfree_rcu() interface that can free memory allocated
via kvmalloc(). It is a simple alias to kfree_rcu() which
can now handle either type of object.

<snip>
    struct test_kvfree_rcu {
        struct rcu_head rcu;
        unsigned char array[100];
    };

    struct test_kvfree_rcu *p;

    p = kvmalloc(10 * PAGE_SIZE);
    if (p)
        kvfree_rcu(p, rcu);
<snip>

Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@...il.com>
Co-developed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 include/linux/rcupdate.h | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index b344fc8..51b26ab 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -875,6 +875,15 @@ do {									\
 		__kvfree_rcu(&((___p)->rhf), offsetof(typeof(*(ptr)), rhf)); \
 } while (0)
 
+/**
+ * kvfree_rcu() - kvfree an object after a grace period.
+ * @ptr:	pointer to kvfree
+ * @rhf:	the name of the struct rcu_head within the type of @ptr.
+ *
+ * Same as kfree_rcu(), just simple alias.
+ */
+#define kvfree_rcu(ptr, rhf) kfree_rcu(ptr, rhf)
+
 /*
  * Place this after a lock-acquisition primitive to guarantee that
  * an UNLOCK+LOCK pair acts as a full barrier.  This guarantee applies
-- 
2.9.5