Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932328AbVJCP6A (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 11:58:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932346AbVJCP6A (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 11:58:00 -0400 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:41708 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932328AbVJCP56 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 11:57:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 08:57:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: Deepak Saxena cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [MTD] kmalloc + memzero -> kzalloc conversion In-Reply-To: <20051001050003.GD11137@plexity.net> Message-ID: References: <20051001050003.GD11137@plexity.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 516 Lines: 13 On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Deepak Saxena wrote: > We have the API, so use it. Ummm. There is a patch in Andrew's tree that allows the use of __GFP_ZERO with slabs in the same way as the page allocator. With that functionality kmalloc_node will also be able to zero stuff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/