linux-kernel - Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE

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Date:	Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:50:40 +0200
From:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)

On 06/05/2007 01:09 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> Here a version of the patch that drops the WARN_ONs

And now all that's done, how about yet another random person stepping in and 
suggesting NIL or maybe NIL_PTR instead of ZERO_SIZE_PTR?

I understand the idea is that code need not necesarily care about zero sized 
allocation meaning it won't (generally) need to spell it out but it's still a 
dreadful name... :-(

Rene.
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