Messages in this thread |  | | From | Changli Gao <> | | Date | Mon, 3 May 2010 15:05:59 +0800 | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fs: use kmalloc() to allocate fdmem if possible |
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On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote: > > My point is, vmalloc() and vfree should do this, not their callers: > > vmalloc(size): > if (size <= PAGE_SIZE) > return kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); > ... > > vfree(p): > if (!is_vmalloc_addr(p) { > kfree(p); > return; > } > ...
I think we should not change vmalloc/vfree, and you can invent new memory APIs, such as malloc()/free().
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