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Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cpuset operations causes Badness at mm/slab.c:777 warning
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On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:00:30 PDT, Linus Torvalds said:

> 	#define BADPTR ((void *)16)

> I bet you'd find *more* problems that way than by returning NULL, and 
> you'd also avoid the whole problem with "if (!ptr) return -ENOMEM".

Hmm.. this looks like a good contender for "first usage of #ifndef CONFIG_STABLE"

:)

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