From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export symbol ksize()
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:45:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1234435521.28812.165.camel@penberg-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090212104349.GA13859@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 04:06:53PM +0200, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> > Herbert, what do you think of this (untested) patch? Alternatively, we
> > could do something like kfree_secure() but it seems overkill for this one
> > call-site.
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 18:43 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> I don't understand why you want to limit the use of ksize.
Because the API was being widely abused in the nommu code, for example.
I'd rather not add it back for this special case which can be handled
otherwise.
Pekka
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-12 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-10 13:21 Kirill A. Shutemov
2009-02-10 13:35 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-10 13:46 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2009-02-10 14:06 ` Pekka J Enberg
2009-02-12 10:43 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-12 10:45 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2009-02-12 10:50 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-12 13:10 ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-12 23:09 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-12 23:37 ` Matt Mackall
2009-02-13 13:20 ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-13 16:57 ` Kyle Moffett
2009-02-12 15:55 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-12 23:09 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-15 21:36 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-15 21:43 ` Matt Mackall
2009-02-15 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-15 23:49 ` Matt Mackall
2009-02-16 1:00 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-16 1:21 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-16 1:28 ` Matt Mackall
2009-02-16 1:52 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-16 1:54 ` Matt Mackall
2009-02-16 1:57 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-16 1:38 ` Matt Mackall
2009-02-17 8:43 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-02-17 16:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-17 17:03 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-17 17:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-16 13:56 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-02-16 14:09 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-16 16:32 ` Joe Perches
2009-02-16 17:29 ` Pekka Enberg
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