Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762231AbXFDWyR (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:54:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757143AbXFDWyI (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:54:08 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:45205 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755853AbXFDWyH (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:54:07 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:53:55 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0) Message-Id: <20070604155355.bf29a3a8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <84144f020706041213x1d241794u98e9b3ca29865033@mail.gmail.com> <46646747.2080803@cs.helsinki.fi> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 915 Lines: 24 On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:39:08 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Btw, if I am again missing something totally obvious, could you please be so > > kind to send me a batch of the same pills that the smart people take. I am all > > out. > > Heheheh.... Mind boogling isnt it? Patch duplicity.... > > Seriously: Andrew/Linus could you make up your mind which way we are > going here? I've no strong opinions - I'm just randomly waffling. > I'd say lets drop the DEVELKERNEL stuff and the warnings and go with > ZERO_SIZE_PTR. The DEVELKERNEL patch has the danger that subtle changes > occur at release time that we have not anticipated. OK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/