Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Jun 2007 19:22:03 +0300 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0) |
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On 6/4/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote: > We are doing that right now. The problem is that people keep storing stuff > in memory allocated with kmalloc(0).
Ok, makes sense. I guess I might as well throw my suggestion in the mix. Lets create a new kmalloc cache for zero-length objects where object size is zero but there are regular red-zones on both sides. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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