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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pmarques@grupopie.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: use kcalloc instead kmalloc/memset
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 23:36:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050804233634.1406e92a.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508050925370.27151@sbz-30.cs.Helsinki.FI>

Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI> wrote:
>
> [PATCH] use kzalloc instead of kmalloc/memset
> 

dammit, I was hoping for akpmalloc()

>  
> +static inline void *kzalloc(size_t size, unsigned int __nocast flags)
> +{
> +	return kcalloc(1, size, flags);
> +}
> +

That'll generate just as much code as simply using kcalloc(1, ...).  This
function should be out-of-line and EXPORT_SYMBOL()ed.  And kcalloc() can
call it too..


  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-05  6:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-05  5:29 [PATCH] kernel: use kcalloc instead kmalloc/memset Pekka Enberg
2005-08-05  5:38 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-05  6:30   ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-08-05  6:36     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-08-05  6:52       ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-08-06 15:09         ` Adrian Bunk
2005-08-08 10:11           ` Takashi Iwai
2005-08-08 21:05             ` Adrian Bunk
2005-08-09 10:09               ` Takashi Iwai
2005-08-05  9:37       ` Roman Zippel
2005-08-05  9:46         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-05  9:59           ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-08-05 10:07           ` [PATCH] " Roman Zippel
2005-08-05 10:13             ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-05 10:32               ` Roman Zippel
2005-08-05 10:38                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-05 10:56                   ` Roman Zippel
2005-08-05 11:12                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-06  0:40                       ` Roman Zippel
2005-08-06 13:09                         ` Pekka Enberg
2005-08-08  6:25                         ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-08-05 17:49                 ` Stephen Pollei
2005-08-05 18:16                   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-05 18:39                     ` Stephen Pollei
2005-08-05 10:15             ` Pekka J Enberg

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