Commit a67d74a4 authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams

mm/slab: Add __free() support for kvfree

Allow for the declaration of variables that trigger kvfree() when they
go out of scope. The check for NULL and call to kvfree() can be elided
by the compiler in most cases, otherwise without the NULL check an
unnecessary call to kvfree() may be emitted. Peter proposed a comment
for this detail [1].

Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/20230816103102.GF980931@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net [1]
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@amd.com>
Acked-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarKuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
parent 2df21353
......@@ -763,6 +763,8 @@ static inline __alloc_size(1, 2) void *kvcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t fla
extern void *kvrealloc(const void *p, size_t oldsize, size_t newsize, gfp_t flags)
__realloc_size(3);
extern void kvfree(const void *addr);
DEFINE_FREE(kvfree, void *, if (_T) kvfree(_T))
extern void kvfree_sensitive(const void *addr, size_t len);
unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *s);
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