Thread (24 messages) 24 messages, 4 authors, 2017-02-04

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

From: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <hidden>
Date: 2017-01-20 11:48:17
Also in: kvm, lkml, qemu-devel

* 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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