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From: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sds@epoch.ncsc.mil
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SELinux - convert to kzalloc
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:43:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52y8602zl7.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050913120707.74a19800.akpm@osdl.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:07:07 -0700")

    Andrew> That's a nice size reduction.  If we had
    Andrew> kzalloc_gfp_kernel(size_t) we could drop an argument and
    Andrew> save even more, but I suspect Linus would come after me
    Andrew> with a cattle prod.

Could one make kzalloc() an inline and do some __builtin_constant_p()
trickery on the flags parameter to get the same effect?

I'll give it a try and see what happens.

 - R.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-14  1:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-13 15:18 [PATCH] SELinux - convert to kzalloc James Morris
2005-09-13 19:07 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-13 20:37   ` James Morris
2005-09-14  1:43   ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2005-09-14  5:09     ` [PATCH] Create __kzalloc_gfp_kernel() Roland Dreier
2005-09-14  5:35       ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-14 18:39         ` [PATCH] Move GFP_KERNEL use out of line to shrink text Roland Dreier
2005-09-15  5:13           ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-09-15 11:42             ` Paulo Marques
2005-09-14  5:06 ` [PATCH] SELinux - convert to kzalloc Denis Vlasenko

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