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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0812122035410.15781@quilx.com>
Date:	Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:36:21 -0600 (CST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	bcrl@...ck.org, list-linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] mm: kfree_size

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:

> Allocators which don't care so much could just define kfree_size to kfree.
>
> Thoughts? Any other good candidate callers?

Would be a good idea together with some sort of allocator skeleton. Not
having to carry the size is especially important for alternate kmalloc
array implementations.

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