Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

Adrian Bunk
2005-04-08T19:44:00Z

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:24:42PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >[...]
> >>>On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:26:31PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
> >>
> >>Hi Adrian,
> >
> >Hi Paolo,
>
> Paulo, please :)
>...

The second name I got wrong today...

Sorry.

>...
> >Joerg's list of recursions should be valid independent of the kernel
> >version. Fixing any real stack problems [1] that might be in this list
> >is a valuable task.
> >
> >And "make checkstack" in a kernel compiled with unit-at-a-time lists
> >several possible problems at the top.
>
> Ok, I've read Jörn's mail also and I think I can help out. It seems
> however that there are more people working on this. Will it be better to
> coordinate so we don't duplicate efforts or is the "everyone looks at
> everything" approach better, so that its harder to miss something?

The only other person that seemed very interested n stack issues was
Yum Rayan <yum.rayan@gmail.com>.

You could coordinate with him, but in the end it should be possible to
have a first set of patches ready a few hours or even minutes after you
started, so duplicate efforts would require a very unlucky timing.

> Paulo Marques

cu
Adrian

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