Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)

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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?
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