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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2] slab: introduce kmalloc_array
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:43:53 -0800
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On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 15:06 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 23:47:42 +0100 (CET)
> Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> wrote:
> > > -static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
> > > +static inline void *kmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
> [] 
> > Does this want adding to Documentation/CodingStyle "Chapter 14: Allocating 
> > memory" ?
> 
> Spose so.  We could possibly cook up a checkpatch rule too ;)
> <gad, CodingStyle has 18 chapters and an appendix??>

Symmetry please.

[kv]malloc_array
[kv]malloc_node_array


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