From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-io0-f199.google.com (mail-io0-f199.google.com [209.85.223.199]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E8EF6B0319 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2018 09:55:50 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-io0-f199.google.com with SMTP id 102so1391104ior.2 for ; Wed, 07 Feb 2018 06:55:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from resqmta-ch2-09v.sys.comcast.net (resqmta-ch2-09v.sys.comcast.net. [2001:558:fe21:29:69:252:207:41]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m3si1109774iob.136.2018.02.07.06.55.49 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 07 Feb 2018 06:55:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 08:55:47 -0600 (CST) From: Christopher Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] rcu: Transform kfree_rcu() into kvfree_rcu() In-Reply-To: <20180207021703.GC3617@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <151791170164.5994.8253310844733420079.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20180207021703.GC3617@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Kirill Tkhai , josh@joshtriplett.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, jiangshanlai@gmail.com, mingo@redhat.com, penberg@kernel.org, rientjes@google.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, brouer@redhat.com, rao.shoaib@oracle.com On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > So it is OK to kvmalloc() something and pass it to either kfree() or > kvfree(), and it had better be OK to kvmalloc() something and pass it > to kvfree(). kvfree() is fine but not kfree(). -- 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