Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Feb 2018 12:29:10 -0500 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] rcu: Transform kfree_rcu() into kvfree_rcu() |
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On Wed, 7 Feb 2018 09:19:36 -0800 Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> > Please no, I hate subtle internal decisions like this. It makes > > debugging much more difficult, when allocating dynamic sized variables. > > When something works at one size but not the other. > > You know we already have kvmalloc()?
Yes, and the name suggests exactly what it does. It has both "k" and "v" which tells me that if I use it it could be one or the other.
But a generic "malloc" or "free" that does things differently depending on the size is a different story.
-- Steve
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