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| To: | "Tan, Lin" <lintan2@xxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [Xen-devel] free_xen_event_channel() forgets to free the channel or it is obsolete? |
| From: | Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:45:13 +0000 |
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It is called free_xen_event_channel() as the symmetric opposite of alloc_unbound_xen_event_channel(). Since the latter does no xmalloc(), it makes sense the former would do no xfree(). -- Keir On 27/1/08 02:48, "Tan, Lin" <lintan2@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Should free_xen_event_channel() actually free the event_channel, by calling > free_xen_event_channel() and then xfree()? Right now, it only closes the > channel. > > Or free_xen_event_channel() is not used at all and should be removed, as > evtchn_destroy() does the same job? > > It is in file common/event_channel.c. > > Thanks, > Lin > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel |
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