On 05/03/2010 10:05 AM, Changli Gao wrote:
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Avi Kivity<avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:My point is, vmalloc() and vfree should do this, not their callers: vmalloc(size): if (size<= PAGE_SIZE) return kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); ... vfree(p): if (!is_vmalloc_addr(p) { kfree(p); return; } ...I think we should not change vmalloc/vfree, and you can invent new memory APIs, such as malloc()/free().
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