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).
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