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

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Date:	Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:43:53 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>, Xi Wang <xi.wang@...il.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2] slab: introduce kmalloc_array

On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 15:06 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 23:47:42 +0100 (CET)
> Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net> wrote:
> > > -static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
> > > +static inline void *kmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
> [] 
> > Does this want adding to Documentation/CodingStyle "Chapter 14: Allocating 
> > memory" ?
> 
> Spose so.  We could possibly cook up a checkpatch rule too ;)
> <gad, CodingStyle has 18 chapters and an appendix??>

Symmetry please.

[kv]malloc_array
[kv]malloc_node_array


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