Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc | Date | Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:09:24 +0300 |
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On Tuesday 05 April 2005 21:00, Jörn Engel wrote: > On Tue, 5 April 2005 17:26:31 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: > > > > Would this be a good thing to clean up, or isn't it worth the effort at all? > > I would welcome such a stream of patches. But in spite of the calloc > interface being rather stupid, I'd prefer to see patches with kcalloc > instead of kmalloc_zero.
kcalloc call will have three params pushed on stack. in 99% of cases it could be done with two. If anyone's going to do it, please create and use
void *kzalloc(size, gfp_mask)
or zalloc, kmalloc_zero... whatever. -- vda
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