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Subject: Re: md: Combine two kmalloc() calls into one in sb_equal()
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 12:51:56 -0800
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On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 21:05 +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > 	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?

No.  If there were, there would be a good argument to remove it.