Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The thing is, why *should* we care about comparing addresses? We'll give 
> the right result (you got many perfectly separate allocations, they're 
> just zero bytes apart, exactly like you asked for!). The fact that C++ has 
> some semantics for it is not a good argument - C++ is a broken language, 
> and it's not the language we use for the kernel anyway.

C too, but I really honestly can't think of a scenario - realistic or
contrived - in which you'd end up doing a zero-sized allocation and care
that its address has been aliased.  But we'll find out when we do it ;)

    J
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