linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/9] mm: add generic adaptive large memory allocation APIs

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Message-ID: <1273761576_4060@mail4.comsite.net>
Date:	Thu, 13 May 2010 09:39:36 -0500
From:	Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@...ibm.com>,
	Christoph Raisch <raisch@...ibm.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rolandd@...co.com>,
	Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
	Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
	Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...e.de>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/9] mm: add generic adaptive large memory allocation APIs

On Thu, 13 May 2010 at 17:51:25 +0800, Changli Gao wrote:

> +static inline void *kvcalloc(size_t n, size_t size)
> +{
> +	return __kvmalloc(n * size, __GFP_ZERO);
> 

This needs multiply overflow checking like kcalloc.

milton
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