On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 09:57:51AM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> There is no user of destructors left. There is no reason why we should
> keep checking for destructors calls in the slab allocators.
>
> The RFC for this patch was discussed at
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117882364330705&w=2
>
> Destructors were mainly used for list management which required them to take a
> spinlock. Taking a spinlock in a destructor is a bit risky since the slab
> allocators may run the destructors anytime they decide a slab is no longer
> needed.
>
> Patch drops destructor support. Any attempt to use a destructor will BUG().
>
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
> Cc: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>
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