Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH,RFC] Add __GFP_ZERO to GFP_LEVEL_MASK | From | (Jonathan Corbet) | Date | Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:00:22 -0600 |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> It would be a bit odd to pass __GFP_ZERO into the slab allocator. Slab > doesn't need that hint: it has its own ways of initialising the memory. > > What is the callsite?
It's vmalloc_user(), which does this:
ret = __vmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO, PAGE_KERNEL);
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