memory management and task structs

[Captain Pierce]

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

Thanks

[matt_kleviar]

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.

[Captain Pierce]

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.