Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:08:25 +0300 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0) |
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > They are different instances which happen to have the same length (zero).
On 6/2/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote: > I guess one could use the slab allocators as a type of reservation > ticket generator with zero sized objects. Hmmm.... But is that really a > useful thing to do?
Can someone remind me why we can't do what mm/slab.c does for zero-size allocations in slub too? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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