[PATCH v1 06/11] fs/proc/vmcore: factor out freeing a list of vmcore ranges

Baoquan He bhe at redhat.com
Wed Nov 20 01:46:54 PST 2024


On 10/25/24 at 05:11pm, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Let's factor it out into include/linux/crash_dump.h, from where we can
> use it also outside of vmcore.c later.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
> ---
>  fs/proc/vmcore.c           |  9 +--------
>  include/linux/crash_dump.h | 11 +++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

LGTM,

Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>

> 
> diff --git a/fs/proc/vmcore.c b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
> index 76fdc3fb8c0e..3e90416ee54e 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
> @@ -1568,14 +1568,7 @@ void vmcore_cleanup(void)
>  		proc_vmcore = NULL;
>  	}
>  
> -	/* clear the vmcore list. */
> -	while (!list_empty(&vmcore_list)) {
> -		struct vmcore_mem_node *m;
> -
> -		m = list_first_entry(&vmcore_list, struct vmcore_mem_node, list);
> -		list_del(&m->list);
> -		kfree(m);
> -	}
> +	vmcore_free_mem_nodes(&vmcore_list);
>  	free_elfcorebuf();
>  
>  	/* clear vmcore device dump list */
> diff --git a/include/linux/crash_dump.h b/include/linux/crash_dump.h
> index ae77049fc023..722dbcff7371 100644
> --- a/include/linux/crash_dump.h
> +++ b/include/linux/crash_dump.h
> @@ -135,6 +135,17 @@ static inline int vmcore_alloc_add_mem_node(struct list_head *list,
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +/* Free a list of vmcore memory nodes. */
> +static inline void vmcore_free_mem_nodes(struct list_head *list)
> +{
> +	struct vmcore_mem_node *m, *tmp;
> +
> +	list_for_each_entry_safe(m, tmp, list, list) {
> +		list_del(&m->list);
> +		kfree(m);
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  #else /* !CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP */
>  static inline bool is_kdump_kernel(void) { return false; }
>  #endif /* CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP */
> -- 
> 2.46.1
> 




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