On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 01:26:46PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Tue 16-01-18 06:13:54, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > 3. Maybe we could rename kvfree() to just free()? Please? There's > > nothing special about it. One fewer thing for somebody to learn when > > coming fresh to kernel programming. > > I guess one has to learn about kvmalloc already and kvfree is nicely > symmetric to it. I'd really like to get to: #define malloc(sz) kvmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL) #define free(p) kvfree(p) #define realloc(p, sz) kvrealloc(p, sz, GFP_KERNEL) /* Doesn't exist yet */ #define calloc(n, sz) kvmalloc_array(n, sz, GFP_KERNEL) ... or similar. I wouldn't be surprised if we currently spend more I$ marshalling arguments for kvmalloc than we would spend exporting a new malloc() function. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
