Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Rene Herman wrote:
> No, what we have is a sizeof(pointer) sized pointer pointing to an
> object of size zero. ZERO_SIZE_PTR is butt-ugly. With a really ugly butt. 

It doesn't matter.  It will never, ever, be used by anything except the
kmalloc internals.  No client code should ever use the constant for
anything.

    J
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