Re: [PATCH 0/2] rcu: Transform kfree_rcu() into kvfree_rcu()

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Maybe lets implement malloc(), free() and realloc() in the kernel to be
> > consistent with user space use as possible? Only use the others
> > allocation variants for special cases.
> 
> They would need to drop the GFP part and default to GFP_KERNEL.

Yes, exactly.

> > So malloc would check allocation sizes and if < 2* PAGE_SIZE use kmalloc()
> > otherwise vmalloc().
> 
> Please no, I hate subtle internal decisions like this. It makes
> debugging much more difficult, when allocating dynamic sized variables.
> When something works at one size but not the other.

You know we already have kvmalloc()?