linux-kernel - Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE

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Date:	Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:17:22 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, jeremy@...p.org
Subject: Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:54:27PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> We lose leak-detection and double-free detection this way, too.  Not a big
> deal.

We could keep a global counter and warn if count < 0 or > N.

An awful lot of fuss over nothing though.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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