Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> FWIW, I am happy :-). We should add a comment to kmalloc() that we return
> non-unique pointers for zero-length allocations though.

Would you do that? Could you also add ZERO_SIZE_PTR support to SLAB?
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References:
- SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)
  - From: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
- Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)
  - From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
- Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)
  - From: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
- Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)
  - From: "Pekka Enberg" <[email protected]>
- Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)
  - From: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
- Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)
  - From: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
- Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)
  - From: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
- Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)
  - From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
- Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)
  - From: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
- Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)
  - From: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>

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