Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Aug 2005 11:37:25 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel: use kcalloc instead kmalloc/memset |
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Hi,
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +static inline void *kzalloc(size_t size, unsigned int __nocast flags) > > +{ > > + return kcalloc(1, size, flags); > > +} > > + > > That'll generate just as much code as simply using kcalloc(1, ...). This > function should be out-of-line and EXPORT_SYMBOL()ed. And kcalloc() can > call it too..
BTW we already have 420 "kcalloc(1, ...)" user and 41 without the 1 argument, most of them are in sound, which introduced it in first place. Can we please deprecate that function before it spreads any further?
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