On 11/20/2014 02:46 AM, David Rientjes wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Andrey Ryabinin wrote: > >> kmem_cache_zalloc_node() allocates zeroed memory for a particular >> cache from a specified memory node. To be used for struct irq_desc. >> > > Is there a reason to add this for such a specialized purpose to the slab > allocator? I think it can just be handled for struct irq_desc explicitly. >
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? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
