Re: [PATCH] include/linux/slab.h: new KFREE() macro.

• To: "Hua Zhong" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: [PATCH] include/linux/slab.h: new KFREE() macro.
• From: "Pekka Enberg" <[email protected]>
• Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 10:00:41 +0200
• Cc: "Amit Choudhary" <[email protected]>, "Christoph Hellwig" <[email protected]>, "Linux Kernel" <[email protected]>
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On 1/8/07, Hua Zhong <[email protected]> wrote:

> And as I explained, it can result in longer code too. So, why
> keep this value around. Why not re-initialize it to NULL.

Because initialization increases code size.

And it also effectively blocks the slab debugging code from doing its
job detecting double-frees.
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