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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: md: Combine two kmalloc() calls into one in sb_equal()
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 20:51:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1481316716.5946.42.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e25d2f8a-8ee9-c541-dac4-a254502df293@users.sourceforge.net>

On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 21:05 +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > 	tmp1 = kmemdup(sb1, MD_SB_GENERIC_CONSTANT_WORDS * sizeof(__u32), GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> Is a function available in the Linux programming interface which would duplicate
> the beginning of two array elements in a single call directly?

No.  If there were, there would be a good argument to remove it.

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: md: Combine two kmalloc() calls into one in sb_equal()
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 12:51:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1481316716.5946.42.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e25d2f8a-8ee9-c541-dac4-a254502df293@users.sourceforge.net>

On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 21:05 +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > 	tmp1 = kmemdup(sb1, MD_SB_GENERIC_CONSTANT_WORDS * sizeof(__u32), GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> Is a function available in the Linux programming interface which would duplicate
> the beginning of two array elements in a single call directly?

No.  If there were, there would be a good argument to remove it.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-09 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-09 18:30 [PATCH] md: Combine two kmalloc() calls into one in sb_equal() SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-09 18:30 ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-09 19:05 ` Joe Perches
2016-12-09 19:05   ` Joe Perches
2016-12-09 20:05   ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-09 20:05     ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-09 20:51     ` Joe Perches [this message]
2016-12-09 20:51       ` Joe Perches
2016-12-09 21:30   ` [PATCH] " Al Viro
2016-12-09 21:30     ` Al Viro
2016-12-09 21:57     ` Joe Perches
2016-12-09 21:57       ` Joe Perches
2016-12-09 19:09 ` Bernd Schubert
2016-12-09 19:09   ` Bernd Schubert
2016-12-09 19:54   ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-09 19:54     ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-09 21:18     ` Bernd Schubert
2016-12-09 21:18       ` Bernd Schubert
2016-12-09 21:58       ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-09 21:58         ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-09 22:04         ` Bernd Schubert
2016-12-09 22:04           ` Bernd Schubert

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