Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763471AbXFEIx7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 04:53:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761905AbXFEIxw (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 04:53:52 -0400 Received: from smtpq1.groni1.gr.home.nl ([213.51.130.200]:41704 "EHLO smtpq1.groni1.gr.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757143AbXFEIxv (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 04:53:51 -0400 Message-ID: <466523E0.3050605@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:50:40 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter CC: Andrew Morton , Pekka Enberg , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0) References: <84144f020706041213x1d241794u98e9b3ca29865033@mail.gmail.com> <46646747.2080803@cs.helsinki.fi> <20070604155355.bf29a3a8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 671 Lines: 17 On 06/05/2007 01:09 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Here a version of the patch that drops the WARN_ONs And now all that's done, how about yet another random person stepping in and suggesting NIL or maybe NIL_PTR instead of ZERO_SIZE_PTR? I understand the idea is that code need not necesarily care about zero sized allocation meaning it won't (generally) need to spell it out but it's still a dreadful name... :-( Rene. - 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/