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

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Wed Feb 18 2009 - 20:22:42 EST


> 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.

I don't think so. It's debetable thing.

poisonig is transparent feature from caller.
but the caller of kzfree() know to fill memory and it should know.



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