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Re: [PATCH 4/7] kref: Remove WARN_ON for NULL release functions

From Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 4/7] kref: Remove WARN_ON for NULL release functions
Date 2017-03-15 03:50 +0100
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 07:14:28PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> 
> The kref functions check for NULL release functions.
> This WARN_ON seems rather pointless. We will eventually release and
> then just crash nicely. It is also somewhat expensive because
> these functions are inlined in a lot of places.
> Removing the WARN_ONs saves around 2.3k in this kernel
> (likely more in others with more drivers)
> 
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 9083992 5367600 11116544        25568136        1862388 vmlinux-before-load-avg
> 9070166 5367600 11116544        25554310        185ed86 vmlinux-load-avg

WARN_ON() is heavy, didn't realize that.

No objection from me.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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[PATCH 4/7] kref: Remove WARN_ON for NULL release functions Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2017-03-15 03:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 4/7] kref: Remove WARN_ON for NULL release functions Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-03-15 03:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4/7] kref: Remove WARN_ON for NULL release functions Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-15 13:30 +0100

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