From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH] type safe allocator From: Peter Zijlstra In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:47:56 +0200 Message-Id: <1186062476.12034.115.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Miklos Szeredi , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org List-ID: On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 16:04 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On 8/2/07, Miklos Szeredi 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? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org