On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 05:10:02 -0500 (CDT)
Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Oct 2015, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> 
> > Thus, I need introducing new code like this patch and at the same time
> > have to reduce the number of instruction-cache misses/usage.  In this
> > case we solve the problem by kmem_cache_free_bulk() not getting called
> > too often. Thus, +17 bytes will hopefully not matter too much... but on
> > the other hand we sort-of know that calling kmem_cache_free_bulk() will
> > cause icache misses.
> 
> Can we just drop the WARN/BUG here? Nothing untoward happens if size == 0
> right?

I think we crash if size == 0, as we deref p[--size] in 
build_detached_freelist().


(aside note: The code do handles if pointers in the p array are NULL)
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Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
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