netdev - Re: (subset) [PATCH 00/17] replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache

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Message-Id: <173184457524.887714.2708612402334434298.b4-ty@ellerman.id.au>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 22:56:15 +1100
From: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To: linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>
Cc: kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, vbabka@...e.cz, paulmck@...nel.org, Tom Talpey <tom@...pey.com>, Dai Ngo <Dai.Ngo@...cle.com>, Olga Kornievskaia <okorniev@...hat.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, linux-can@...r.kernel.org, bridge@...ts.linux.dev, b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, wireguard@...ts.zx2c4.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, ecryptfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>, Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>, Naveen N Rao <naveen@...nel.org>, Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.ibm.com>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org
Subject: Re: (subset) [PATCH 00/17] replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache_free callback

On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 22:16:47 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> Since SLOB was removed and since
> commit 6c6c47b063b5 ("mm, slab: call kvfree_rcu_barrier() from kmem_cache_destroy()"),
> it is not necessary to use call_rcu when the callback only performs
> kmem_cache_free. Use kfree_rcu() directly.
> 
> The changes were done using the following Coccinelle semantic patch.
> This semantic patch is designed to ignore cases where the callback
> function is used in another way.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/topic/ppc-kvm.

[13/17] KVM: PPC: replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache_free callback
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/1db6a4e8a3fc8ccaa4690272935e02831dc6d40d

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