From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C4D6B003D for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:45:23 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export symbol ksize() From: Pekka Enberg In-Reply-To: <20090212104349.GA13859@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <1234272104-10211-1-git-send-email-kirill@shutemov.name> <84144f020902100535i4d626a9fj8cbb305120cf332a@mail.gmail.com> <20090210134651.GA5115@epbyminw8406h.minsk.epam.com> <20090212104349.GA13859@gondor.apana.org.au> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:45:21 +0200 Message-Id: <1234435521.28812.165.camel@penberg-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Herbert Xu Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Christoph Lameter , Matt Mackall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org