Re: [RFC] kmem_cache_zalloc

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Date: Fri Mar 29 2002 - 17:17:21 EST


Hi!

> > was "standard" in some sense :)
> > I wonder if they (I can't remember who it was) will say
> > "kmem_cache_zalloc is a non-standard name"...
>
> Much more useful would be kcalloc(). That way we can put all the missing
> 32bit overflow checking into kcalloc and remove a lot of crud from the
> kernel where we have to keep doing maths checks.

What should kcalloc do?
                                                                        Pavel

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