From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>,
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/7] slab: introduce kzfree()
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:54:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1234954488.24030.46.camel@penberg-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <499BE7F8.80901@csr.com>
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 10:50 +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
> Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > +void kzfree(const void *p)
>
> Shouldn't this be void * since it writes to the memory?
No. kfree() writes to the memory as well to update freelists, poisoning
and such so kzfree() is not at all different from it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-18 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-17 18:26 [patch 0/7] kzfree() v2 Johannes Weiner
2009-02-17 18:26 ` [patch 1/7] slab: introduce kzfree() Johannes Weiner
2009-02-17 20:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-18 10:50 ` David Vrabel
2009-02-18 10:54 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2009-02-19 1:22 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-02-19 9:13 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-19 12:12 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-02-19 16:34 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-02-19 18:02 ` Matt Mackall
2009-02-19 18:28 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-02-19 19:45 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-19 20:36 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-02-23 14:01 ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-23 14:51 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-02-23 15:07 ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-23 19:42 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-19 19:48 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-02-17 18:26 ` [patch 2/7] crypto: use kzfree() Johannes Weiner
2009-02-20 4:53 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-17 18:26 ` [patch 3/7] s390: " Johannes Weiner
2009-02-17 18:26 ` [patch 4/7] md: " Johannes Weiner
2009-02-17 18:26 ` [patch 5/7] usb: " Johannes Weiner
2009-02-18 10:51 ` David Vrabel
2009-02-17 18:26 ` [patch 6/7] cifs: " Johannes Weiner
2009-02-17 18:26 ` [patch 7/7] ecryptfs: " Johannes Weiner
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