Re: [patch 03/26] Slab allocators: Consistent ZERO_SIZE_PTR support and NULL result semantics

[Pekka Enberg]

On 6/18/07, clameter@xxxxxxx <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Define ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR macro to be able to remove the checks
> from the allocators. Move ZERO_SIZE_PTR related stuff into slab.h.
>
> Make ZERO_SIZE_PTR work for all slab allocators and get rid of the
> WARN_ON_ONCE(size == 0) that is still remaining in SLAB.
>
> Make slub return NULL like the other allocators if a too large
> memory segment is requested via __kmalloc.

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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