On 7/9/06, Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+struct kevent *kevent_alloc(gfp_t mask) +{ + struct kevent *k; + + if (kevent_cache) + k = kmem_cache_alloc(kevent_cache, mask); + else + k = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kevent), mask); + + return k; +}
What's this for? Why would kevent_cache be NULL? Note that you can use kmem_cache_zalloc() for fixed size allocations that need to be zeroed. On 7/9/06, Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+ +void kevent_free(struct kevent *k) +{ + memset(k, 0xab, sizeof(struct kevent));
Why is slab poisoning not sufficient?
+ if (kevent_cache) + kmem_cache_free(kevent_cache, k); + else + kfree(k); +}
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