Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757633Ab2BJOJP (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:09:15 -0500 Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:44237 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751205Ab2BJOJN (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:09:13 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2] slab: introduce kmalloc_array Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Xi Wang In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:09:09 -0500 Cc: Jens Axboe , Pekka Enberg , Andrew Morton , Dan Carpenter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter , Matt Mackall , David Rientjes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: References: <20120207141155.GA16184@elgon.mountain> <4F323388.7040902@kernel.dk> <20120208142513.4db2493a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4F33BF05.208@gmail.com> <4F33C7D7.1060801@kernel.dk> <32FA0BD0-7C0D-4ED4-B375-4736FC70AC05@gmail.com> <4F33CEAE.60400@gmail.com> <3F3C1079-91B3-4AD4-97ED-EACAD3CB085F@gmail.com> To: Alexey Dobriyan X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 508 Lines: 15 On Feb 10, 2012, at 8:58 AM, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > No, > > If one dimension is constant, limit should be divided by it, so > compiler would have less chance > to screw up compile time evaluation. I think the BUILD_BUG_ON macro can prevent that misuse. - xi -- 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/