On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > They are different instances which happen to have the same length (zero). > > On 6/2/07, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess one could use the slab allocators as a type of reservation > > ticket generator with zero sized objects. Hmmm.... But is that really a > > useful thing to do? > > Can someone remind me why we can't do what mm/slab.c does for > zero-size allocations in slub too?
We are doing that right now. The problem is that people keep storing stuff in memory allocated with kmalloc(0). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
