Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:03:16 -0600 (CST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: sl[aou]b: introduce kmem_cache_zalloc_node() |
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> It could be used not only for irq_desc. Grepping sources gave me 7 possible users. > > We already have zeroing variants of kmalloc/kmalloc_node/kmem_cache_alloc, > so why kmem_cache_alloc_node is special?
Why do we need this at all? You can always add the __GFP_ZERO flag and any alloc function will then zero the memory for you.
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