From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763021AbXFBAoA (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 20:44:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760609AbXFBAnx (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 20:43:53 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:58660 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761162AbXFBAnw (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 20:43:52 -0400 Message-ID: <4660BD42.5020705@goop.org> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:43:46 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Christoph Lameter , Srinivasa Ds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Srivatsa Vaddagiri , Dinakar Guniguntala , pj@sgi.com, simon.derr@bull.net, clameter@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com, rientjes@google.com Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cpuset operations causes Badness at mm/slab.c:777 warning References: <465FCA79.70207@in.ibm.com> <200706011620.05756.srinivasa@in.ibm.com> <466081DE.70205@goop.org> <20070601135900.ec44b1aa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070601151649.bb23c6f9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070601151649.bb23c6f9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > As I said, it's specific to the kmalloc(0) problem, and we're fixing that > by other means anyway. > I guess I'm not getting much traction in my campaign for equal rights for zero-sized allocations. They're perfectly reasonable things to have, if that's the way the code falls out. The warning is just prejudice. J