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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> On 2/21/07, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> > please mark this one __must_check.. not storing realloc() return values
> > is one of the more nasty types of bugs... but gcc can help us greatly
> > here ;)
> 
> So I guess we want the same thing for the other allocator functions
> (__kmalloc et al) as well?

I think so.