Re: [RFC PATCH] type safe allocator

[Miklos Szeredi]

> >  
> > +/**
> > + * k_new - allocate given type object
> > + * @type: the type of the object to allocate
> > + * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
> > + */
> > +#define k_new(type, flags) ((type *) kmalloc(sizeof(type), flags))
> 
> What others already said, plus:
> 
> kmalloc()'ing sizeof(struct foo) is not always what we want in C either.
> 
> Several kernel structs have zero-length / variable-length array members
> and space must be allocated for them only at alloc() time ... would be
> impossible to make them work with this scheme.

Exactly.  We can, and should use kmalloc() for that.

Miklos
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