On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Personally, I would like us to rename kvfree() to just free(), and have > malloc(x) be an alias to kvmalloc(x, GFP_KERNEL), but I haven't won that > fight yet. Maybe lets implement malloc(), free() and realloc() in the kernel to be consistent with user space use as possible? Only use the others allocation variants for special cases. So malloc would check allocation sizes and if < 2* PAGE_SIZE use kmalloc() otherwise vmalloc(). free() would free anything you give it. -- 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>
