Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Jun 04 2007 - 18:54:19 EST


On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:39:08 -0700 (PDT)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Btw, if I am again missing something totally obvious, could you please be so
> > kind to send me a batch of the same pills that the smart people take. I am all
> > out.
>
> Heheheh.... Mind boogling isnt it? Patch duplicity....
>
> Seriously: Andrew/Linus could you make up your mind which way we are
> going here?

I've no strong opinions - I'm just randomly waffling.

> I'd say lets drop the DEVELKERNEL stuff and the warnings and go with
> ZERO_SIZE_PTR. The DEVELKERNEL patch has the danger that subtle changes
> occur at release time that we have not anticipated.

OK.
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