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From: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
To: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jirislaby@gmail.com,
	lion.vollnhals@web.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use kzalloc instead of malloc+memset
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:42:59 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17190.33539.992902.463545@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509131001400.31456@sbz-30.cs.Helsinki.FI>

Pekka J Enberg writes:

[...]

 > +
 > +The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators:
 > +kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), and vmalloc().  Please refer to the API
 > +documentation for further information about them.
 > +
 > +The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:
 > +
 > +	p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);

Parentheses around *p are superfluous. See

 >   The C Programming Language, Second Edition
 >   by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie.

Nikita.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-13 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-12 22:10 Lion Vollnhals
2005-09-12 22:47 ` Lion Vollnhals
2005-09-13  5:41   ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-09-13 11:27     ` Jiri Slaby
2005-09-12 22:58 ` Jiri Slaby
2005-09-13  4:43   ` Pekka Enberg
2005-09-13  5:33     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-13  6:42       ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-13  7:02         ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-09-13  7:42           ` Nikita Danilov [this message]
2005-09-13 16:31             ` Pekka Enberg
2005-09-14  5:02             ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-09-14  9:58               ` Nikita Danilov
2005-09-13 23:28         ` Paul Jackson
2005-09-14  9:33           ` Bernd Petrovitsch

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