Re: [PATCH] Allow NULL pointers in percpu_free

[Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>]

On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 13:07 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Daniel Walker wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 12:36 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > 
> > >  void percpu_free(void *__pdata)
> > >  {
> > > +	if (!__pdata)
> > > +		return;
> > 
> > Should be unlikely() right?
> 
> It certainly could be.  I tend not to put such annotations in my code, but 
> it wouldn't hurt.

It's actually a really good idea to add them .. I've noticed they tend
to make my kernels smaller, although I wouldn't expect that to always be
the case.. Another reason is that in -mm we can track how often this
condition is triggered with likely profiling. With kfree, for instance,
there were a number of callers that frequently called kfree(NULL), which
IMO isn't good.

Daniel

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