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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: delete "kmalloc(sizeof(*var))" as preferred allocation form
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 03:35:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1495708535.29207.1.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACVxJT-LjZt2KzEL5rM1n2AbFhpo7y5ouXVneVuzaOsJfz0ngA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 13:18 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> Proper fix is to introduce typed allocation macros with the following
> signatures:
> 
> T* lmalloc(T, gfp);
[]
>     struct foo *x;
>     x = lmalloc(struct foo, GFP_KERNEL);

Then code would be written

	x = lmalloc(typeof(*x), GFP_KERNEL);

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-25 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-22 21:38 [PATCH] CodingStyle: delete "kmalloc(sizeof(*var))" as preferred allocation form Alexey Dobriyan
2017-05-22 21:43 ` Joe Perches
2017-05-22 21:49   ` Randy Dunlap
2017-05-22 22:22   ` Andrew Morton
2017-05-22 22:41     ` Joe Perches
2017-05-24 10:18     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2017-05-25 10:35       ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-05-25 10:46         ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2017-05-28 19:16           ` Pavel Machek
2017-05-22 21:49 ` [PATCH] checkpatch: Remove preference for alloc(sizeof(*p), ...) Joe Perches

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