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 861796B00A1 for ; Sat, 30 May 2009 03:37:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 00:35:28 -0700 From: "Larry H." Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] Support for sanitization flag in low-level page allocator Message-ID: <20090530073528.GK29711@oblivion.subreption.com> References: <20090520183045.GB10547@oblivion.subreption.com> <1242852158.6582.231.camel@laptop> <20090520212413.GF10756@oblivion.subreption.com> <20090529155859.2cf20823.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <84144f020905300012h6ca92605ve8fdcbaba39ac054@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <84144f020905300012h6ca92605ve8fdcbaba39ac054@mail.gmail.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Pekka Enberg Cc: Andrew Morton , "Larry H." , peterz@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mingo@redhat.com, pageexec@freemail.hu List-ID: On 10:12 Sat 30 May , Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Andrew Morton > wrote: > > ?But how to do that? ?Particular callsites don't get to alter > > ?kfree()'s behaviour. ?So they'd need to use a new kfree_sensitive(). > > ?Which is just syntactic sugar around the code whihc we presently > > ?implement. > > Unless I am missing something here, we already have kfree_sensitive(), > we just call it kzfree(). You should test that. The results might be surprising, though. Larry -- 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