Re: [PATCH RFC v2] slab: introduce kmalloc_array

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 09:09:09AM -0500, Xi Wang wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2012, at 8:58 AM, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > No,
> > 
> > If one dimension is constant, limit should be divided by it, so
> > compiler would have less chance
> > to screw up compile time evaluation.
> 
> I think the BUILD_BUG_ON macro can prevent that misuse.

But there is no misuse.

Both kaalloc(non-const, const) and kaalloc(const, non-const) are OK.
It's just first case happens more often.
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