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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:29:52 +0300
From: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: sl[aou]b: introduce kmem_cache_zalloc_node()
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On 11/21/2014 01:31 AM, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> 
>>> 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.
>>
> 
> It would be best to follow in the example of those users and just use 
> __GFP_ZERO.
> 

Fair enough.
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