Re: [PATCHv3] gpio: virtio: remove one kcalloc

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 7:09 AM Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I wonder if it is worth it anymore. Why combining allocations is better when we
> are ending up using more memory ?

For the same reason we are starting to use Rust in the kernel, despite
it sometimes will take more memory essentially. __counted_by() enforce
the same type of runtime size checks as Rust do on arrays.

Yours,
Linus Walleij