linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vmallocinfo: Add NUMA informations

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Date:	Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:05:03 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	dada1@...mosbay.com, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	nickpiggin@...oo.com.au, hugh@...itas.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmallocinfo: Add NUMA informations

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 07:16:48 -0700 (PDT)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > > +	if (NUMA_BUILD) {
> > > +		unsigned int *counters, nr;
> > > +
> > > +		counters = kzalloc(nr_node_ids * sizeof(unsigned int),
> > 
> > This is kcalloc().  If you like that sorts of thing - I think kcalloc()
> > is pretty pointless personally.
> 
> Same here. I think its generally ignored. I tried to remove it at some 
> point in the past. If we want kcalloc then we also need kczalloc.

kcalloc() zeroes the returned memory - it's like calloc().

> It would 
> be best to keep the interface simple.

yup.  Oh well, it's not a big deal.

Except the inlined

        if (n != 0 && size > ULONG_MAX / n)
                return NULL;

is a bit bloaty/inefficient.  I expect that it's often the case that
one of `n' and `size' is not a compile-time constant.

otoh, there's one good thing about kcalloc: it actually checks for
multiplicative overflows, whereas the open-coded version often forgets
to do that.

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