Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 1/7] slab: introduce kzfree() | From | Pekka Enberg <> | Date | Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:13:37 +0200 |
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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().
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