Re: No kmem_cache_destroy?
Johannes Erdfelt (jerdfelt@suse.com)
Sat, 7 Aug 1999 20:20:34 -0400
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
> Forgot to tell, my kmem_cache_destory is just robust against freeing a
> slab header that has still some object allocated (not yet
> kmem_cache_freed) in it. If there are still objects queued you get a
> different retval from kmem_cache_destory and the slab header won't be
> destroyed. It will also printk a kernel error. That will allow us to catch
> bugs and the code may do some recover action at runtime looking the
> retval.
I submitted it to Linus as part of a patch to the UHCI driver and it was
accepted. Thanks Andrea!
JE
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