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Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 23:36:34 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pmarques@grupopie.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: use kcalloc instead kmalloc/memset
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Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI> wrote:
>
> [PATCH] use kzalloc instead of kmalloc/memset
> 

dammit, I was hoping for akpmalloc()

>  
> +static inline void *kzalloc(size_t size, unsigned int __nocast flags)
> +{
> +	return kcalloc(1, size, flags);
> +}
> +

That'll generate just as much code as simply using kcalloc(1, ...).  This
function should be out-of-line and EXPORT_SYMBOL()ed.  And kcalloc() can
call it too..