On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 09:57:51AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There is no user of destructors left. There is no reason why we should > keep checking for destructors calls in the slab allocators. > > The RFC for this patch was discussed at > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117882364330705&w=2 > > Destructors were mainly used for list management which required them to take a > spinlock. Taking a spinlock in a destructor is a bit risky since the slab > allocators may run the destructors anytime they decide a slab is no longer > needed. > > Patch drops destructor support. Any attempt to use a destructor will BUG(). > > Cc: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Acked-by: Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
