On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:50:08AM +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote: > > > BTW: What about a checkpatch.pl rule to detect such a misuse of kmalloc()? > > We could grep for "k[mzc]alloc(GFP_". > > Make sure to ignore bio_kmalloc (which has reverse argument order to kmalloc, ugh) > Yeah, and there's also kmalloc_node() (and perhaps kmem_cache_alloc() && kmem_cache_alloc_node() although there the compiler will at least warn) that might as well be checked for. -- Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.chaosbits.net/ Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
