From: dhylands@gmail.com (Dave Hylands)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Build scatterlist covering a process' text segment?
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:53:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimtMCqaM6t85646d9ODUaQnrqRBVA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110617184635.GD1451@debian.debian>
Hey Jonathan,
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Jonathan Neusch?fer
<j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 06:18:06PM +0300, Metin KAYA wrote:
>> Jonathan, it's kmalloc(), not kcalloc().
>
> No, I was trying to suggest using kcalloc(), which behaves roughly like
> the userspace calloc, and implements overflow checking, which you may
> need and zeroing, which you don't seem to need.
Cool - I missed that somehow. So we now have kmalloc, kcalloc, and
kzalloc, and I see krealloc too.
--
Dave Hylands
Shuswap, BC, Canada
http://www.davehylands.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-17 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-23 23:06 Build scatterlist covering a process' text segment? Arvid Brodin
2011-05-25 20:27 ` Arvid Brodin
2011-05-26 4:02 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-27 21:58 ` Arvid Brodin
2011-05-28 9:42 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-06-17 0:47 ` Arvid Brodin
2011-06-17 15:10 ` Jonathan Neuschäfer
2011-06-17 15:18 ` Metin KAYA
2011-06-17 17:59 ` Dave Hylands
2011-06-17 18:46 ` Jonathan Neuschäfer
2011-06-17 18:53 ` Dave Hylands [this message]
2011-06-17 19:00 ` Jonathan Neuschäfer
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