Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:30:27 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] slab: deal with NULL pointers passed to kmem_cache_free |
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:41:19 +0200 "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> On 3/21/07, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote: > > IMHO one way to find them is to actually slow down kmem_cache_free() and see > > where the performance is hurt. > > Yeah, I'll try to sneak a patch past Andrew.
That would be sneaky.
Thing is, such a patch would amount to adding a test-for-NULL to codepaths which we *know* do not need it. There is no point in doing that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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