Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:13:06 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add __GFP_ZERP to GFP_LEVEL_MASK |
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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);
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