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From: shaw@vranix.com
To: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>,
	Johann Borck <johann.borck@densedata.com>
Subject: Re: [take17 1/4] kevent: Core files.
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 21:05:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609072105.16061.shaw@vranix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1157623151215@2ka.mipt.ru>

> +static int __devinit kevent_user_init(void)
> +{
> +	int err = 0;
> +
> +	kevent_cache = kmem_cache_create("kevent_cache",
> +			sizeof(struct kevent), 0, SLAB_PANIC, NULL, NULL);
> +
> +	err = misc_register(&kevent_miscdev);
> +	if (err) {
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to register kevent miscdev: err=%d.\n", err);
> +		goto err_out_exit;
> +	}
> +
> +	printk("KEVENT subsystem has been successfully registered.\n");
> +
> +	return 0;
> +
> +err_out_exit:
> +	kmem_cache_destroy(kevent_cache);
> +	return err;
> +}

It's probably best to treat kmem_cache_create like a black box and check for 
it returning null.

Thanks,
Shaw

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-08  4:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1qwel34p2jrwe5.GA1898@2ka.mipt.ru>
2006-09-07  9:57 ` [take17 0/4] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-07  9:59   ` [take17 1/4] kevent: Core files Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-07  9:59     ` [take17 2/4] kevent: poll/select() notifications Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-07  9:59       ` [take17 3/4] kevent: Socket notifications Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-07  9:59         ` [take17 4/4] kevent: Timer notifications Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-08  4:05     ` shaw [this message]
2006-09-08  6:38       ` [take17 1/4] kevent: Core files Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-08 17:06         ` shawvrana

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