Re: [PATCH] kernel: use kcalloc instead kmalloc/memset

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 12:11:21PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Sat, 6 Aug 2005 17:09:40 +0200,
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Looking at how few is left from kcalloc, can't we make it a
> > "static inline" function in slab.h?
> > 
> > This would optimize nicely for all of the users where the first or even 
> > the first two parameters are constant at compile-time and shouldn't do 
> > much harm for the other users.
> > 
> > As a side effect, the difference between kcalloc(1, ...) and kzalloc() 
> > would become a coding style question without any effect on the generated 
> > code.
> 
> How about to use __builtin_constant_p() like kmalloc?
> The code readability would be worsen, though...

Where should this make any difference?

If the function is "static inline", gcc can e.g. always determine at 
compile-time that 1 >= 0 can never be false and therefore optimize it 
away.

> Takashi

cu
Adrian

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