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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
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: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:14:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081117131440.GB29931@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <492162E4.9080902@cn.fujitsu.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-17 13:15 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 [this message]
2008-11-18  0:28   ` Lai Jiangshan
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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