Re: Uninline kcalloc

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Me neither. I don't think Christoph's SAFE_ARRAY_SIZE() suggestion
> makes much sense, really. It's more verbose, less obvious API, and
> doesn't really deal with the overflow case cleanly.

IMHO Having a function to deal with the overflow of a multiplication and
then do an allocation based on the result is a conflation of two different
things that need to be separate. kcalloc only exists because there is
an ancient user space function that somehow got a second parameter instead
of just using the same as malloc().



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