linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Fixes to bootconfig memory management

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Date:   Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:48:15 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Fixes to bootconfig memory management

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 12:38 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> So I'll do a minimal conversion that adds "memblock_free_ptr()" and
> hope that people start using that. And then we can later try to move
> "memblock_free()" to a name that isn't so misleading.

Commit 77e02cf57b6c ("memblock: introduce saner 'memblock_free_ptr()'
interface") should hopefully fix that panic that Vlastimil saw, and
the kernel test robot report as well.

And it should make it easy to cleanly fix that 'copy' leak too.

            Linus