From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] type safe allocator
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:47:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1186062476.12034.115.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6fcc0a0708020504j7588061fq7e70a50499dcbdfe@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 16:04 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On 8/2/07, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> > The linux kernel doesn't have a type safe object allocator a-la new()
> > in C++ or g_new() in glib.
> >
> > Introduce two helpers for this purpose:
> >
> > alloc_struct(type, gfp_flags);
> >
> > zalloc_struct(type, gfp_flags);
>
> ick.
>
> > These macros take a type name (usually a 'struct foo') as first
> > argument
>
> So one has to type struct twice.
thrice in some cases like alloc_struct(struct task_struct, GFP_KERNEL)
I've always found this _struct postfix a little daft, perhaps its time
to let the janitors clean that out?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-02 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-01 9:06 [RFC PATCH] " Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-01 9:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-01 9:41 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-01 10:44 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-01 9:57 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-01 11:34 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-01 10:45 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-01 11:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-01 11:56 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-02 3:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-02 7:27 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-02 12:05 ` Al Viro
2007-08-02 13:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-02 17:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-02 5:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-02 7:38 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-02 19:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-02 7:37 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-08-02 7:40 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-02 11:31 ` [PATCH] " Miklos Szeredi, Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-02 12:04 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-08-02 12:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-02 13:06 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-02 13:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-02 13:49 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-02 13:47 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-08-02 14:06 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-08-02 14:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-02 18:36 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-02 18:48 ` Miklos Szeredi
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