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mm: add vzalloc() and vzalloc_node() helpers

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Add vzalloc() and vzalloc_node() to encapsulate the
vmalloc-then-memset-zero operation.

Use __GFP_ZERO to zero fill the allocated memory.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dave Young
2010-10-26 14:22:06 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 7bbc0905ea
commit e1ca7788de
3 changed files with 94 additions and 3 deletions
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@@ -293,11 +293,58 @@ void *vmalloc(unsigned long size)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc);
/*
* vzalloc - allocate virtually continguos memory with zero fill
*
* @size: allocation size
*
* Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level
* allocator and map them into continguos kernel virtual space.
* The memory allocated is set to zero.
*
* For tight control over page level allocator and protection flags
* use __vmalloc() instead.
*/
void *vzalloc(unsigned long size)
{
return __vmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO,
PAGE_KERNEL);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vzalloc);
/**
* vmalloc_node - allocate memory on a specific node
* @size: allocation size
* @node: numa node
*
* Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level
* allocator and map them into contiguous kernel virtual space.
*
* For tight control over page level allocator and protection flags
* use __vmalloc() instead.
*/
void *vmalloc_node(unsigned long size, int node)
{
return vmalloc(size);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_node);
/**
* vzalloc_node - allocate memory on a specific node with zero fill
* @size: allocation size
* @node: numa node
*
* Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level
* allocator and map them into contiguous kernel virtual space.
* The memory allocated is set to zero.
*
* For tight control over page level allocator and protection flags
* use __vmalloc() instead.
*/
void *vzalloc_node(unsigned long size, int node)
{
return vzalloc(size);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vzalloc_node);
#ifndef PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC
# define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC PAGE_KERNEL