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Subject: Re: md: Combine two kmalloc() calls into one in sb_equal()
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
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> 	tmp1 = kmemdup(sb1, MD_SB_GENERIC_CONSTANT_WORDS * sizeof(__u32), GFP_KERNEL);

Is a function available in the Linux programming interface which would duplicate
the beginning of two array elements in a single call directly?

Regards,
Markus