From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1032011AbXHMRhn (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:37:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765114AbXHMRde (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:33:34 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:60225 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S943002AbXHMRdb (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:33:31 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 72.143.66.27 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:26:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Roland Dreier cc: Mariusz Kozlowski , surya.prabhakar@wipro.com, mingo@redhat.com, yaku@css1.kbnes.nec.co.jp, kisimoto@css1.kbnes.nec.co.jp, zab@redhat.com, Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [KJ] replacing kmalloc with kzalloc in io_apic.c In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1186993881.3175.15.camel@bluegenie> <200708131518.20580.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.541, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 20.00, SARE_SUB_OBFU_Z 0.26) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Roland Dreier wrote: > > from my days submitting numerous patches of this type, i can recall > > that in cases like the above, it's a judgment call -- use kzalloc to > > get the zeroing, or use kcalloc to get the array-flavoured behaviour. > > what a shame you can't have both at the same time. > > kcalloc() zeros memory just like standard calloc() in userspace. > > As says: > > * kcalloc - allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero. oops. quite right, my bad. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================