Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

From: Randy.Dunlap
Date: Fri Apr 08 2005 - 14:54:15 EST


On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:43:55 +0200 Adrian Bunk wrote:

| On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:24:42PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
| > Adrian Bunk wrote:
| > >[...]
| > >>>On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:26:31PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
| > >>
| > >>Hi Adrian,
| > >
| >...
| > >Joerg's list of recursions should be valid independent of the kernel
| > >version. Fixing any real stack problems [1] that might be in this list
| > >is a valuable task.
| > >
| > >And "make checkstack" in a kernel compiled with unit-at-a-time lists
| > >several possible problems at the top.
| >
| > Ok, I've read Jörn's mail also and I think I can help out. It seems
| > however that there are more people working on this. Will it be better to
| > coordinate so we don't duplicate efforts or is the "everyone looks at
| > everything" approach better, so that its harder to miss something?
|
| The only other person that seemed very interested n stack issues was
| Yum Rayan <yum.rayan@xxxxxxxxx>.

Well, I am, but they are not high on my list right now,
so no coordination is needed with me currently.

| You could coordinate with him, but in the end it should be possible to
| have a first set of patches ready a few hours or even minutes after you
| started, so duplicate efforts would require a very unlucky timing.
|
| > Paulo Marques
|
| cu
| Adrian

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~Randy
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