From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com,
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
dada1@cosmosbay.com, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] mm: introduce kvmalloc()/kvfree()
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:28:15 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49220C1F.8040509@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081117131440.GB29931@cmpxchg.org>
Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Hi Lai,
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 08:26:12PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
>> +/**
>> + * kvfree - free the memory by kfree(), or vfree() if it is vmalloc addr
>
> Could that be just `free the memory allocated by kvmalloc()'?
>
> Hannes
>
>
>
We don't and we won't introduce another allocator, kvmalloc() is
a wrapper of kmalloc() and vmalloc(), and kvfree() is a wrapper
of kfree() and vfree()
Lai.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-18 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-17 12:26 [PATCH V2 1/1] mm: introduce kvmalloc()/kvfree() Lai Jiangshan
2008-11-17 13:14 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-11-18 0:28 ` Lai Jiangshan [this message]
2008-11-18 8:50 ` [PATCH V2 0/4] use kvmalloc()/kvfree() the second part, about RCU Lai Jiangshan
2008-11-18 8:51 ` [PATCH V2 1/4] vmalloc: introduce vfree_atomic() Lai Jiangshan
2008-11-18 9:19 ` Nick Piggin
2008-11-18 11:38 ` Lai Jiangshan
2008-11-18 12:05 ` Nick Piggin
2008-11-18 8:51 ` [PATCH V2 2/4] mm: introduce kvfree_atomic() Lai Jiangshan
2008-11-18 8:51 ` [PATCH V2 3/4] files: use kvmalloc()/kvfree()/kvfree_atomic() Lai Jiangshan
2008-11-18 8:51 ` [PATCH V2 4/4] sysipc: use kvmalloc()/kvfree_atomic() Lai Jiangshan
2008-11-18 6:57 ` [PATCH V2 1/1] mm: introduce kvmalloc()/kvfree() Pekka Enberg
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