Re: [PATCH v1] mm:slab:use kmem_cache_free() to free
From: Christoph Lameter (Ampere)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2024 - 13:09:57 EST
On Thu, 22 Aug 2024, Yan Zhen wrote:
> The kmem_cache_alloc() is typically used to free memory allocated through
> the kernel memory cache (slab allocator).
Well yes but since we removed SLOB we can use kfree() on any slab object.
> Using kmem_cache_free() for deallocation may be more reasonable.
It is more symmetric and looks better.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>