From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35B3D6B008A for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:54:52 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [patch 1/7] slab: introduce kzfree() From: Pekka Enberg In-Reply-To: <499BE7F8.80901@csr.com> References: <20090217182615.897042724@cmpxchg.org> <20090217184135.747921027@cmpxchg.org> <499BE7F8.80901@csr.com> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:54:48 +0200 Message-Id: <1234954488.24030.46.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: David Vrabel Cc: Johannes Weiner , Andrew Morton , Chas Williams , Evgeniy Polyakov , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matt Mackall , Christoph Lameter , Nick Piggin List-ID: 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. -- 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