On 7/9/06, Evgeniy Polyakov <[email protected]> wrote:
+struct kevent *kevent_alloc(gfp_t mask)
+{
+ struct kevent *k;
+
+ if (kevent_cache)
+ k = kmem_cache_alloc(kevent_cache, mask);
+ else
+ k = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kevent), mask);
+
+ return k;
+}
What's this for? Why would kevent_cache be NULL? Note that you can use
kmem_cache_zalloc() for fixed size allocations that need to be zeroed.
On 7/9/06, Evgeniy Polyakov <[email protected]> wrote:
+
+void kevent_free(struct kevent *k)
+{
+ memset(k, 0xab, sizeof(struct kevent));
Why is slab poisoning not sufficient?
+ if (kevent_cache)
+ kmem_cache_free(kevent_cache, k);
+ else
+ kfree(k);
+}
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