Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

From: Paulo Marques
Date: Fri Apr 08 2005 - 11:25:57 EST


Adrian Bunk wrote:
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On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:26:31PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:

Hi Adrian,

Hi Paolo,

Paulo, please :)

Paolo is Spanish (or Italian), whereas Paulo is a Portuguese name.

[...]
I think most will agree that the second piece of code is more "readable".

In this case yes (but it could still use the normal kcalloc).

Yes, but the cleanup is already just barely justifiable. 75% (or more) of the calls will use just one parameter. Adding a stupid "1" to all of those will make the cleanup even less worth while.

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Joerg's list of recursions should be valid independent of the kernel version. Fixing any real stack problems [1] that might be in this list is a valuable task.

And "make checkstack" in a kernel compiled with unit-at-a-time lists several possible problems at the top.

Ok, I've read Jörn's mail also and I think I can help out. It seems however that there are more people working on this. Will it be better to coordinate so we don't duplicate efforts or is the "everyone looks at everything" approach better, so that its harder to miss something?

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Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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