> On Jan 12, 2017, at 08:37, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> From: Michal Hocko
>
> There are many code paths opencoding kvmalloc. Let's use the helper
> instead. The main difference to kvmalloc is that those users are usually
> not considering all the aspects of the memory allocator. E.g. allocation
On 2015/11/09, 04:56, "Tetsuo Handa"
wrote:
>There are many locations that do
>
> if (memory_was_allocated_by_vmalloc)
>vfree(ptr);
> else
>kfree(ptr);
>
>but kvfree() can handle both kmalloc()ed memory and vmalloc()ed memory
>using is_vmalloc_addr(). Unless callers have special reasons
