Re: [RFC] kmem_cache_zalloc

Alan Cox
2002-03-27T20:01:40Z

> was "standard" in some sense :)
> I wonder if they (I can't remember who it was) will say
> "kmem_cache_zalloc is a non-standard name"...

Much more useful would be kcalloc(). That way we can put all the missing
32bit overflow checking into kcalloc and remove a lot of crud from the
kernel where we have to keep doing maths checks.

Alan