On Fri, 19 Jul 2013, Chen Gang F T wrote: > Yes, "'max' can roughly mean the same thing", but they are still a > little different. > > 'max' also means: "the caller tells callee: I have told you the > maximize buffer length, so I need not check the buffer length to be > sure of no memory overflow, you need be sure of it". > > 'size' means: "the caller tells callee: you should use the size which I > give you, I am sure it is OK, do not care about whether it can cause > memory overflow or not". Ok that makes sense. > The diff may like this: I am fine with such a patch. Ultimately I would like the tracking and debugging technology to be abstracted from the slub allocator and made generally useful by putting it into mm/slab_common.c. SLAB has similar things but does not have all the features. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>