Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763632AbXFETHX (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:07:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757170AbXFETHL (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:07:11 -0400 Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:36388 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753895AbXFETHK (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:07:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4665B469.3050208@cs.helsinki.fi> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:07:21 +0300 From: Pekka Enberg User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Macintosh/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rene Herman CC: "John Anthony Kazos Jr." , Christoph Lameter , Andrew Morton , 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> <466523E0.3050605@gmail.com> <46655CEC.7070900@gmail.com> <466573E0.8050809@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <466573E0.8050809@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 471 Lines: 12 Rene Herman wrote: > If I'd have a few small children around I'd show them the word > ZERO_SIZE_PTR and make pictures of them bursting out in tears. I strongly recommend against it, linux/mm/*.c is for adults only. Pekka - 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/