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

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Feb 07 2018 - 12:29:19 EST


On Wed, 7 Feb 2018 09:19:36 -0800
Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > 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()?

Yes, and the name suggests exactly what it does. It has both "k" and
"v" which tells me that if I use it it could be one or the other.

But a generic "malloc" or "free" that does things differently depending
on the size is a different story.

-- Steve