Re: [PATCH] use kzalloc instead of malloc+memset

[Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>]

Pekka J Enberg writes:

[...]

 > +
 > +The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators:
 > +kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), and vmalloc().  Please refer to the API
 > +documentation for further information about them.
 > +
 > +The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:
 > +
 > +	p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);

Parentheses around *p are superfluous. See

 >   The C Programming Language, Second Edition
 >   by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie.

Nikita.
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