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.
next prev parent 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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