linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC v2] slab: introduce kmalloc

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Date:	Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:35:01 +0200 (EET)
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, Xi Wang <xi.wang@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2] slab: introduce kmalloc_array

On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> SAFE_ARRAY_SIZE() would return the size if there were no overflow
> and -1 on errors?  We can't return zero on errors because there are
> a lot of places which do zero size allocations and it's valid.  It
> seems ugly.
>
> I really think that's over thinking things.  Let's just match
> kcalloc() exactly except without zeroing.  The BUILD_BUG_ON() thing
> is an over complication as well.  We haven't needed it for
> kcalloc().

It is and we're not going to phase out a userspace-like kcalloc() API with 
something as verbose as SAFE_ARRAY_SIZE().

 			Pekka
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