Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:14:44 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: introduce simple_malloc()/simple_free() | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:49:01 +0300
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:33:15PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote: > > some subsystem needs vmalloc() when required memory is large. > > but current kernel has not APIs for this requirement. > > It doesn't mean there should be such an API.
If it leads to lots of code duplication, which this case has, that is enough reason to provide helper functions.
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