linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] perf kvm: Fix memory leak

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Date:   Mon, 20 Mar 2023 10:43:11 -0700
From:   Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To:     Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        James Clark <james.clark@....com>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] perf kvm: Fix memory leak

On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 11:16 PM Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> This patch seris is to address memory leak issues in perf kvm.
>
> The first patch introduces refcnt in structure kvm_info, so we can avoid
> memory leak for it.
>
> The second patch explicitly delete histograms entries before program
> exiting rather than relying on kernel releasing memory space.
>

Series:
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>

Thanks,
Ian

> Leo Yan (2):
>   perf kvm: Support refcnt in structure kvm_info
>   perf kvm: Delete histograms entries before exiting
>
>  tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c   |  6 ++++--
>  tools/perf/util/hist.c     |  5 +++++
>  tools/perf/util/kvm-stat.h | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.39.2
>