Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:12:49 +0900 | Subject | Re: [patch 1/7] slab: introduce kzfree() | From | KOSAKI Motohiro <> |
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2009/2/19 Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>: > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 10:50 +0000, David Vrabel wrote: >> > > Johannes Weiner wrote: >> > > > +void kzfree(const void *p) >> > > >> > > Shouldn't this be void * since it writes to the memory? >> > >> > No. kfree() writes to the memory as well to update freelists, poisoning >> > and such so kzfree() is not at all different from it. > > On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 10:22 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: >> I don't think so. It's debetable thing. >> >> poisonig is transparent feature from caller. >> but the caller of kzfree() know to fill memory and it should know. > > Debatable, sure, but doesn't seem like a big enough reason to make > kzfree() differ from kfree().
Sure. ok, I don't oppse this :)
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