From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>, SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs/core-api: memory-allocation: clarify when to use kzalloc_obj and kzalloc
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 12:40:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b7b8bf57-ad14-4304-9ca6-dd53e299682d@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260907063654.2248617-1-rppt@kernel.org>
On 9/7/26 08:36, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
>
> Make it abundantly clear that in the most cases objects should be
> allocated with kzalloc_obj() and buffers should be allocated with
> kzalloc().
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
> ---
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
--
Cheers,
David
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-07 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-07 6:36 Mike Rapoport
2026-09-07 7:12 ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-09-07 7:27 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-07 10:40 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
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