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

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Date:   Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:05:53 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.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, 14 Sep 2021 13:48:15 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Vlastimil,

Can you confirm that Linus's changes addresses your issue?

Masami,

Care to rebase on top of Linus's change?

Thanks!

-- Steve