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. -- 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/
