Re: [RFC] kmem_cache_zalloc

Pavel Machek
2002-03-29T23:00:42Z

Hi!

> > 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.

What should kcalloc do?
Pavel
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