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From: dhylands@gmail.com (Dave Hylands)
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:53:19 -0700
Subject: Build scatterlist covering a process' text segment?
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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.

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Dave Hylands
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