From 6cb8f91320d3e720351c21741da795fed580b21b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Lameter Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:03:22 -0700 Subject: Slab allocators: consistent ZERO_SIZE_PTR support and NULL result semantics 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 Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/slub_def.h | 12 ------------ 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/slub_def.h') diff --git a/include/linux/slub_def.h b/include/linux/slub_def.h index a582f677152..579b0a22858 100644 --- a/include/linux/slub_def.h +++ b/include/linux/slub_def.h @@ -159,18 +159,6 @@ static inline struct kmem_cache *kmalloc_slab(size_t size) #define SLUB_DMA 0 #endif - -/* - * 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) - - void *kmem_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t); void *__kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags); -- cgit v1.2.3