Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:08:51 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] type safe allocator |
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On Aug 2 2007 16:06, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: >> thrice in some cases like alloc_struct(struct task_struct, GFP_KERNEL) > >Save the explicit "struct" and put it into the macro (and force people >to not use typedefs). > >#define alloc_struct(type, flags) ((type *)kmalloc(sizeof(struct type), (flags)))
#define alloc_struct(type, flags) ((struct type *)kmalloc(sizeof(struct type), (flags)))
>Obious drawback: We may need alloc_union(). >SCNR.
And we still don't have something to allocate a bunch of ints. [kmalloc(sizeof(int)*5,GFP)]
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