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[PATCH] slab: introduce kmem_cache_zalloc allocator

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Introduce a memory-zeroing variant of kmem_cache_alloc.  The allocator
already exits in XFS and there are potential users for it so this patch
makes the allocator available for the general public.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Pekka Enberg
2006-03-25 03:06:42 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 871751e25d
commit a8c0f9a41f
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@ -3107,6 +3107,23 @@ void *kmem_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc);
/**
* kmem_cache_alloc - Allocate an object. The memory is set to zero.
* @cache: The cache to allocate from.
* @flags: See kmalloc().
*
* Allocate an object from this cache and set the allocated memory to zero.
* The flags are only relevant if the cache has no available objects.
*/
void *kmem_cache_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *cache, gfp_t flags)
{
void *ret = __cache_alloc(cache, flags, __builtin_return_address(0));
if (ret)
memset(ret, 0, obj_size(cache));
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_zalloc);
/**
* kmem_ptr_validate - check if an untrusted pointer might
* be a slab entry.