On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:36:40AM +0800, Li Zefan wrote: > On 2013/6/13 5:03, Tejun Heo wrote: > > There's no point in using kmalloc() and list_del() instead of the > > clearing variants for trivial stuff. We can live dangerously > > elsewhere. Use kzalloc() and list_del_init() instead and drop 0 > > inits. > > > > Do you mean we prefer list_del_init() than list_del() in general? Then > in which cases do we prefer list_del()?
IMO, list_del() is preferred when the object shouldn't be reused (i.e. it gets taken off a list and then it's freed). list_del_init() could hide bugs. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
