Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756972AbXHBNsQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 09:48:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755227AbXHBNsD (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 09:48:03 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:59502 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753881AbXHBNsB (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 09:48:01 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] type safe allocator From: Peter Zijlstra To: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Miklos Szeredi , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:47:56 +0200 Message-Id: <1186062476.12034.115.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 909 Lines: 29 On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 16:04 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On 8/2/07, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > The linux kernel doesn't have a type safe object allocator a-la new() > > in C++ or g_new() in glib. > > > > Introduce two helpers for this purpose: > > > > alloc_struct(type, gfp_flags); > > > > zalloc_struct(type, gfp_flags); > > ick. > > > These macros take a type name (usually a 'struct foo') as first > > argument > > So one has to type struct twice. thrice in some cases like alloc_struct(struct task_struct, GFP_KERNEL) I've always found this _struct postfix a little daft, perhaps its time to let the janitors clean that out? - 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/