linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cpuset operations causes Badness at mm/slab.c:777 warning

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Message-ID: <46608803.2090707@goop.org>
Date:	Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:56:35 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
CC:	Srinivasa Ds <srinivasa@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
	Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@...ibm.com>, pj@....com,
	simon.derr@...l.net, clameter@...ulhu.engr.sgi.com,
	rientjes@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cpuset operations causes Badness at mm/slab.c:777
 warning

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
>   
>> I think this is a good example of why having to special-case kmalloc(0)
>> is a bad idea.  The original code was straightforward and, barring
>> silliness, should be completely correct with npids==0.  This new code
>> does nothing other than make things more complex.
>>     
>
> Hehe we got you. 

Bugger ;) Well, my get-out clause was "barring silliness".

J
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