On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 05:06:38PM -0000, David Laight wrote:

 > It is probably safer to have only one free() routine - then you can't
 > call the wrong one!  It ought to be easy (and relatively cheap) to
 > use the virtual address to determine the size and type of allocation.

This is how malloc() currently works.  However, it has to limit the
addresses to kmem_map in order for that to work properly.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>