From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Om Narasimhan <om.turyx@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: kmalloc to kzalloc patches for drivers/base
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:40:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1158572453.6069.85.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6b4e42d10609171753m2a047081qc2982bf4a693a044@mail.gmail.com>
Ar Sul, 2006-09-17 am 17:53 -0700, ysgrifennodd Om Narasimhan:
> Tested by compiling.
>
> Signed off by Om Narasimhan <om.turyx@gmail.com>
> - if (!(retval = kmalloc (sizeof *retval, SLAB_KERNEL)))
> + if (!(retval = kzalloc (sizeof *retval, SLAB_KERNEL)))
> return retval;
NAK
Why slow all these allocations down when they don't zero the memory
anyway ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-18 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-18 0:53 kmalloc to kzalloc patches for drivers/base Om Narasimhan
2006-09-18 1:08 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-09-18 2:27 ` Om Narasimhan
2006-09-18 9:40 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-09-18 12:31 ` [KJ] " Greg KH
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