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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Christoph Lameter 2007-07-17 04:03:22 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 6cb8f91320
7 changed files with 57 additions and 35 deletions

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@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ void *krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
if (unlikely(!new_size)) {
kfree(p);
return NULL;
return ZERO_SIZE_PTR;
}
ks = ksize(p);