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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Fixes to bootconfig memory management
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:05:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210914170553.7c1e1faa@oasis.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wipBkq-OeUBsgv-_hvTfg=nveTpiZonWeY1dBMofkjEuw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:48:15 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 12:38 PM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > So I'll do a minimal conversion that adds "memblock_free_ptr()" and
> > hope that people start using that. And then we can later try to move
> > "memblock_free()" to a name that isn't so misleading.  
> 
> Commit 77e02cf57b6c ("memblock: introduce saner 'memblock_free_ptr()'
> interface") should hopefully fix that panic that Vlastimil saw, and
> the kernel test robot report as well.
> 
> And it should make it easy to cleanly fix that 'copy' leak too.
> 

Vlastimil,

Can you confirm that Linus's changes addresses your issue?

Masami,

Care to rebase on top of Linus's change?

Thanks!

-- Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-14 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-14 14:56 Steven Rostedt
2021-09-14 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-14 18:59   ` Steven Rostedt
2021-09-14 19:05     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-14 19:14       ` Steven Rostedt
2021-09-14 19:23       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-14 19:38         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-14 20:48           ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-14 21:05             ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2021-09-14 22:47               ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-09-14 23:29                 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-15  9:28                   ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-09-14 23:44               ` Masami Hiramatsu
2021-09-17 20:10   ` Mike Rapoport

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