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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm/sl[aou]b: make kfree() aware of error pointers
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 01:15:15AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:21:14 -0700, Andrew Morton said:
> > On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 23:25:28 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
> > kfree() is quite a hot path to which this will add overhead. And we
> > have (as far as we know) no code which will actually use this at
> > present.
>
> We already do a check for ZERO_SIZE_PTR, and given that dereferencing *that* is
> instant death for the kernel, and we see it very rarely, I'm going to guess
> that IS_ERR(ptr) *has* to be true more often than ZERO_SIZE_PTR, and thus even
> more advantageous to short-circuit.

ZERO_SIZE_PTR is sort of common.

ZERO_SIZE_PTR is an mm abstraction and kfree() and ksize() are basically
the only places where we need to test for it. Also friends of kfree()
like jbd2_journal_free_transaction().

regards,
dan carpenter


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