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SubjectRe: [patch 04/26] Slab allocators: Support __GFP_ZERO in all allocators.
On 6/18/07, clameter@sgi.com <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> A kernel convention for many allocators is that if __GFP_ZERO is passed to
> an allocator then the allocated memory should be zeroed.
>
> This is currently not supported by the slab allocators. The inconsistency
> makes it difficult to implement in derived allocators such as in the uncached
> allocator and the pool allocators.

[snip]

> So add the necessary logic to all slab allocators to support __GFP_ZERO.

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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