On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:20:32PM -0400, Kristian H?gsberg wrote:
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> > The wrappers aren't useless the drm alloc/free passes in a memory space 
> > for debugging purposes so we can track memory abuse when developing,
> 
> Do we ever use that, though?  Having to pass in the pointer, the size
> and the area just to free memory, sure is a bitch.

Note the slab has a memory tracking feature that accounts memory to
callers of the allocator.  IF that's not enough for you please help
improving the common code instead of inventing your own.

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