Re: [patch 1/7] slab: introduce kzfree()

[Pekka Enberg]

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.

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