[PATCH] (repost) kmem_cache_zalloc

From: Eric Sandeen (sandeen@sgi.com)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 16:07:52 EST

(reposting)

There was a brief thread on this patch a while ago, please see
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0203.3/0601.html

In short, XFS is using a kmem_cache_zalloc() function which just
does kmem_cache_alloc + memset.

We'd like to incorporate this into the kernel proper, and several others
chimed in that it would be useful, so here's the patch. If it's a no-go
with Linus, we can roll this functionality back under fs/xfs to reduce
our changes in the mainline kernel.

Brian Gerst suggested adding a flag to the cache to tell
kmem_cache_zalloc() to zero the object, and this also sounds like a
reasonable way to go, but there was no discussion after that.

Thanks,

-Eric

--- linux-orig/include/linux/slab.h Mon Mar 18 14:37:14 2002
+++ linux/include/linux/slab.h Wed Apr 3 14:58:40 2002
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
 extern int kmem_cache_destroy(kmem_cache_t *);
 extern int kmem_cache_shrink(kmem_cache_t *);
 extern void *kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache_t *, int);
+extern void *kmem_cache_zalloc(kmem_cache_t *, int);
 extern void kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache_t *, void *);
 
 extern void *kmalloc(size_t, int);
--- linux-orig/mm/slab.c Mon Mar 18 14:37:18 2002
+++ linux/mm/slab.c Tue Apr 2 12:56:38 2002
@@ -1611,6 +1611,23 @@
         local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 
+void *
+kmem_cache_zalloc(kmem_cache_t *cachep, int flags)
+{
+ void *ptr;
+ ptr = __kmem_cache_alloc(cachep, flags);
+ if (ptr)
+#if DEBUG
+ memset(ptr, 0, cachep->objsize -
+ (cachep->flags & SLAB_RED_ZONE ? 2*BYTES_PER_WORD : 0));
+#else
+ memset(ptr, 0, cachep->objsize);
+#endif
+
+ return ptr;
+}
+
+
 /**
  * kfree - free previously allocated memory
  * @objp: pointer returned by kmalloc.
--- linux-orig/kernel/ksyms.c Mon Mar 18 14:37:03 2002
+++ linux/kernel/ksyms.c Tue Apr 2 12:56:38 2002
@@ -102,6 +115,7 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_destroy);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_shrink);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_zalloc);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmalloc);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree); 

-- 
Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@sgi.com   SGI, Inc.

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