Messages in this thread | | | From | Nikita Danilov <> | Date | Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:42:59 +0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] use kzalloc instead of malloc+memset |
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Pekka J Enberg writes:
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> + > +The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators: > +kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), and vmalloc(). Please refer to the API > +documentation for further information about them. > + > +The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following: > + > + p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);
Parentheses around *p are superfluous. See
> The C Programming Language, Second Edition > by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie.
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