| Date | Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:11:59 +0300 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 04/26] Slab allocators: Support __GFP_ZERO in all allocators. |
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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.
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> So add the necessary logic to all slab allocators to support __GFP_ZERO.
Looks good to me.
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