On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> +/**
> + * kmem_cache_free - Deallocate an object
> + * @cachep: The cache the allocation was from.
> + * @objp: The previously allocated object.
> + *
> + * Free an object which was previously allocated from this
> + * cache.
> + */
> +void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *s, void *x)
> +{
> + __kmem_cache_free(s, x);
> + trace_kmem_cache_free(_RET_IP_, x);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free);
As Christoph mentioned, this is going to hurt performance. The proper
way to do this is to implement the *hook* in mm/slab_common.c and call
that from all the allocator specific kmem_cache_free() functions.
Pekka
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