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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 23:17:21 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>,
        Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] kmem_cache_zalloc
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Hi!

> > was "standard" in some sense :)
> > I wonder if they (I can't remember who it was) will say
> > "kmem_cache_zalloc is a non-standard name"...
> 
> Much more useful would be kcalloc(). That way we can put all the missing 
> 32bit overflow checking into kcalloc and remove a lot of crud from the
> kernel where we have to keep doing maths checks.

What should kcalloc do?
									Pavel
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