Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Jun 05 2007 - 13:23:45 EST


On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> FWIW, I am happy :-). We should add a comment to kmalloc() that we return
> non-unique pointers for zero-length allocations though.

Would you do that? Could you also add ZERO_SIZE_PTR support to SLAB?
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