Re: [PATCH 1/9] mm: add generic adaptive large memory allocationAPIs

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Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> NAK, I really utterly dislike that inatomic argument. The alloc side
> doesn't function in atomic context either. Please keep the thing
> symmetric in that regards.

Excuse me. kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) may sleep (and therefore cannot be used in
atomic context). However, kfree() for memory allocated with kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL)
never sleep (and therefore can be used in atomic context).
Why kmalloc() and kfree() are NOT kept symmetric?
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