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Re: [PATCH v6 kernel 3/5] virtio-balloon: speed up inflate/deflate process

From "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v6 kernel 3/5] virtio-balloon: speed up inflate/deflate process
Date 2017-01-20 12:50 +0100
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* Liang Li (liang.z.li@intel.com) wrote:

<snip>

> +static void free_extended_page_bitmap(struct virtio_balloon *vb)
> +{
> +	int i, bmap_count = vb->nr_page_bmap;
> +
> +	for (i = 1; i < bmap_count; i++) {
> +		kfree(vb->page_bitmap[i]);
> +		vb->page_bitmap[i] = NULL;
> +		vb->nr_page_bmap--;
> +	}
> +}
> +
> +static void kfree_page_bitmap(struct virtio_balloon *vb)
> +{
> +	int i;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < vb->nr_page_bmap; i++)
> +		kfree(vb->page_bitmap[i]);
> +}

It might be worth commenting that pair of functions to make it clear
why they are so different; I guess the kfree_page_bitmap
is used just before you free the structure above it so you
don't need to keep the count/pointers updated?

Dave
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK

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