My bad...that's a simple multiplication...confused it for dereferencing...
On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:41:22 +0530 wrote >Just a correction..."*newsize" is inside ipc_rcu_alloc. I want to understand >how memory will be allocated and what's the role of *newsize? > > "newsize" is an int holding the value 128. > > -Govindraj > > On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:38:34 +0530 wrote > >Hi, > > > > > > While going through the code of IPC semaphore implementation, I encountered a statement: > > > > > > new = ipc_rcu_alloc(sizeof(struct kern_ipc_perm *)*newsize +sizeof(struct ipc_id_ary)) > > > > > > I am not able to understand how memory will be allocated by the above statement. Inside the sizeof() operator why do we need "*newsize"? how does size of interprets *newsize? > > > > > > -Govindraj >
