Re: [PATCH] add __GFP_ZERP to GFP_LEVEL_MASK

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Jul 23 2007 - 18:42:21 EST




On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> OK, well that was weird. So
>
> kmalloc(42, GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO);
>
> duplicates
>
> kzalloc(42, GFP_KERNEL);
>
> Why do it both ways?

Both ways? The latter *is* the former. That's how kzalloc() is implemented
these days.

Andrew - all these patches came through you. You didn't realize?

Linus
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