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Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 17:07:07 +0200 From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net> To: Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Dave Weinstein <olorin@...gle.com>, Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@...marydata.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com> Subject: Re: arm: sys_oabi-compat: Use kmalloc_array() in two functions > It should at least make basic English sense. I'm afraid the above > doesn't convey any meaning what so ever, at least to me. It doesn't > matter how many times I read it, I still end up wondering "wtf is > this trying to tell me?" I have started to look a bit more on the usage of the following function pairs in some Linux source files. kmalloc() ⇔ kmalloc_array() kzalloc() ⇔ kcalloc() Can such combinations be extended anyhow? Some update candidates can be found for this use case in several software areas. Regards, Markus
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