On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 10:10:20AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2020-04-06 at 17:26 +0100, David Howells wrote: > > Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > While I agree with Linus about the __ prefix, > > > the z is pretty common and symmetric to all > > > the <foo>zalloc uses. > > > > > > And if _sensitive is actually used, it'd be > > > good to do a s/kzfree/kfree_sensitive/ one day > > > sooner than later. > > > > How much overhead would it be to always use kvfree_sensitive() and never have > > a kfree_sensitive()? > > Another possibility: > > Add yet another alloc flag like __GFP_SENSITIVE > and have kfree operate on that and not have a > kfree_sensitive at all. kfree() doesn't take GFP flags.
