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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:08:25 +0300 From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi> To: "Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com> Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, jeremy@...p.org Subject: Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0) 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@....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@...r.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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