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Date:   Wed, 7 Feb 2018 20:09:29 -0800
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] rcu: Transform kfree_rcu() into kvfree_rcu()
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 08:55:47AM -0600, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > So it is OK to kvmalloc() something and pass it to either kfree() or
> > kvfree(), and it had better be OK to kvmalloc() something and pass it
> > to kvfree().
> 
> kvfree() is fine but not kfree().

Ah, even more fun, then!  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul