From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-it0-f70.google.com (mail-it0-f70.google.com [209.85.214.70]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A58E6B0355 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2018 12:54:26 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-it0-f70.google.com with SMTP id i135so2425228ita.9 for ; Wed, 07 Feb 2018 09:54:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from resqmta-ch2-12v.sys.comcast.net (resqmta-ch2-12v.sys.comcast.net. [2001:558:fe21:29:69:252:207:44]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b186si129296ith.72.2018.02.07.09.54.25 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 07 Feb 2018 09:54:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 11:54:22 -0600 (CST) From: Christopher Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] rcu: Transform kfree_rcu() into kvfree_rcu() In-Reply-To: <20180207122910.1a91a48e@gandalf.local.home> Message-ID: References: <151791170164.5994.8253310844733420079.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20180207021703.GC3617@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20180207042334.GA16175@bombadil.infradead.org> <20180207120949.62fa815f@gandalf.local.home> <20180207171936.GA12446@bombadil.infradead.org> <20180207122910.1a91a48e@gandalf.local.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Matthew Wilcox , "Paul E. McKenney" , Kirill Tkhai , josh@joshtriplett.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 Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Steven Rostedt wrote: > But a generic "malloc" or "free" that does things differently depending > on the size is a different story. They would not be used for cases with special requirements but for the throwaway allows where noone cares about these details. Its just a convenience for the developers that do not need to be bothered with too much detail because they are not dealing with codepaths that have special requirements. -- 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