From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Dave Weinstein <olorin@google.com>,
Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: arm: sys_oabi-compat: Use kmalloc_array() in two functions
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 17:07:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ed97ce3-4378-496f-848b-c66dcc05b21d@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160826134459.GR1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>
> It should at least make basic English sense. I'm afraid the above
> doesn't convey any meaning what so ever, at least to me. It doesn't
> matter how many times I read it, I still end up wondering "wtf is
> this trying to tell me?"
I have started to look a bit more on the usage of the following
function pairs in some Linux source files.
kmalloc() ⇔ kmalloc_array()
kzalloc() ⇔ kcalloc()
Can such combinations be extended anyhow?
Some update candidates can be found for this use case in several
software areas.
Regards,
Markus
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-26 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-25 15:50 [PATCH] " SF Markus Elfring
2016-08-25 17:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-08-25 22:46 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-08-26 13:22 ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-08-26 13:45 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-08-26 15:07 ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
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