linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/11] cgroup: use kzalloc() and list_del

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Message-ID: <51B93038.9010202@huawei.com>
Date:	Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:36:40 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
CC:	<containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>, <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
	<koverstreet@...gle.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] cgroup: use kzalloc() and list_del_init()

On 2013/6/13 5:03, Tejun Heo wrote:
> There's no point in using kmalloc() and list_del() instead of the
> clearing variants for trivial stuff.  We can live dangerously
> elsewhere.  Use kzalloc() and list_del_init() instead and drop 0
> inits.
> 

Do you mean we prefer list_del_init() than list_del() in general? Then
in which cases do we prefer list_del()?

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