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SubjectRe: [PATCH] add __GFP_ZERP to GFP_LEVEL_MASK
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:43:23 -0700
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:

> __GFP_ZERO is implemented by the slab allocators (the page allocator
> has no knowledge about the length of the object to be zeroed). The slab
> allocators do not pass __GFP_ZERO to the page allocator.

OK, well that was weird. So

kmalloc(42, GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO);

duplicates

kzalloc(42, GFP_KERNEL);


Why do it both ways?
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