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Once a thread terminates, does anyone know where the call is to free memory used by that task struct in the slab allocator? Thanks...
  1. 10-24-2008 #1
    Captain Pierce
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    memory management and task structs

    Once a thread terminates, does anyone know where the call is to free memory used by that task struct in the slab allocator?

    Thanks
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  2. 10-24-2008 #2
    matt_kleviar
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    what I know is it when kernelwants to allocate task struct , he loks at kmem_cache_alloc.....
    so I think, it should be kmem_cache_free call....
    somewhere....
    but I do not know where exact;y om kernel, may be have to dig more.
    I am not sure, please let me know if you get correct info.
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    Yeah it is a call to kmem_cache_free somewhere, but I don't know where, which is why I was asking in the first place...

    Searching the source hasn't turned up anything that is immediately obvious what I need, and I don't have time to go through every hit to figure out if it's what I need either.
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