linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 04/23] mm/slab_common: cleanup kmalloc_track

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Message-ID: <0cce13c3-7ba4-0dce-6cf2-0483cfda9d70@suse.cz>
Date:   Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:05:13 +0200
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>
Cc:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Matthew WilCox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/23] mm/slab_common: cleanup kmalloc_track_caller()

On 4/14/22 10:57, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> Make kmalloc_track_caller() wrapper of kmalloc_node_track_caller().

Looks like there's an immediate benefit of SLUB not throwing away the caller
pointer anymore in case of kmalloc_large().

> Signed-off-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>