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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] mm: introduce kvmalloc()/kvfree()
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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.