From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org, Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@barebox.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] lib: add talloc for overlaying a tree onto allocations
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:12:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <176276232506.985046.11225171524975607876.b4-ty@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251027075438.2480311-1-a.fatoum@barebox.org>
On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 08:54:32 +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> Talloc is the hierarchical allocator used by Samba, which keeps all
> allocated buffers in a tree, where each child may not live longer than
> its parent. When a parent is talloc_free'd, all its children are as
> well. This can simplify memory management a great deal.
>
> In barebox, this can also be used to implement devm_.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/3] lib: add talloc for overlaying a tree onto allocations
https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=9c35b3c2ac7e (link may not be stable)
[2/3] test: self: add talloc selftest
https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=2e65ba56f3ee (link may not be stable)
[3/3] hush: fix memory leaks
https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=f86d68979fa6 (link may not be stable)
Best regards,
--
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-10 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-27 7:54 Ahmad Fatoum
2025-10-27 7:54 ` [PATCH RFC 2/3] test: self: add talloc selftest Ahmad Fatoum
2025-10-27 7:54 ` [PATCH RFC 3/3] hush: fix memory leaks Ahmad Fatoum
2025-10-28 9:42 ` [PATCH RFC 1/3] lib: add talloc for overlaying a tree onto allocations Sascha Hauer
2025-10-28 10:26 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2025-11-07 13:55 ` Sascha Hauer
2025-11-07 13:56 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2025-11-10 8:12 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
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