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Slab allocators: consistent ZERO_SIZE_PTR support and NULL result semantics

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Define ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR macro to be able to remove the checks from the
allocators.  Move ZERO_SIZE_PTR related stuff into slab.h.

Make ZERO_SIZE_PTR work for all slab allocators and get rid of the
WARN_ON_ONCE(size == 0) that is still remaining in SLAB.

Make slub return NULL like the other allocators if a too large memory segment
is requested via __kmalloc.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Lameter 2007-07-17 04:03:22 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent ef2ad80c7d
commit 6cb8f91320
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include/linux/slab.h
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@ -30,6 +30,19 @@
#define SLAB_MEM_SPREAD 0x00100000UL /* Spread some memory over cpuset */
#define SLAB_TRACE 0x00200000UL /* Trace allocations and frees */
/*
* ZERO_SIZE_PTR will be returned for zero sized kmalloc requests.
*
* Dereferencing ZERO_SIZE_PTR will lead to a distinct access fault.
*
* ZERO_SIZE_PTR can be passed to kfree though in the same way that NULL can.
* Both make kfree a no-op.
*/
#define ZERO_SIZE_PTR ((void *)16)
#define ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(x) ((unsigned long)(x) < \
(unsigned long)ZERO_SIZE_PTR)
/*
* struct kmem_cache related prototypes
*/