Avoid matching allocs that appear to be known small multiplications of a
sizeof with a constant because gcc as of 4.8 cannot optimize the code in
a calloc() exactly the same way as an alloc().
Look for numeric constants or what appear to be upper case only macro
#defines.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Original-patch-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Joe Perches
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