linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cpumask: alloc blank cpumask left over

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Date:	Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:57:04 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpumask: alloc blank cpumask left over

so sth like

---
 include/linux/cpumask.h |   15 +++++++++++++++
 lib/cpumask.c           |   12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/cpumask.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/cpumask.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/cpumask.h
@@ -1022,6 +1022,8 @@ typedef struct cpumask *cpumask_var_t;
 
 bool alloc_cpumask_var_node(cpumask_var_t *mask, gfp_t flags, int node);
 bool alloc_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t *mask, gfp_t flags);
+bool zalloc_cpumask_var_node(cpumask_var_t *mask, gfp_t flags, int node);
+bool zalloc_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t *mask, gfp_t flags);
 void alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t *mask);
 void free_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t mask);
 void free_bootmem_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t mask);
@@ -1040,6 +1042,19 @@ static inline bool alloc_cpumask_var_nod
 	return true;
 }
 
+static inline bool zalloc_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t *mask, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	cpumask_clear(*mask);
+	return true;
+}
+
+static inline bool zalloc_cpumask_var_node(cpumask_var_t *mask, gfp_t flags,
+					  int node)
+{
+	cpumask_clear(*mask);
+	return true;
+}
+
 static inline void alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t *mask)
 {
 }
Index: linux-2.6/lib/cpumask.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/lib/cpumask.c
+++ linux-2.6/lib/cpumask.c
@@ -119,6 +119,12 @@ bool alloc_cpumask_var_node(cpumask_var_
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_cpumask_var_node);
 
+bool zalloc_cpumask_var_node(cpumask_var_t *mask, gfp_t flags, int node)
+{
+	return alloc_cpumask_var_node(mask, flags | __GFP_ZERO, node);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(zalloc_cpumask_var_node);
+
 /**
  * alloc_cpumask_var - allocate a struct cpumask
  * @mask: pointer to cpumask_var_t where the cpumask is returned
@@ -135,6 +141,12 @@ bool alloc_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t *ma
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_cpumask_var);
 
+bool zalloc_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t *mask, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	return alloc_cpumask_var(mask, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(zalloc_cpumask_var);
+
 /**
  * alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var - allocate a struct cpumask from the bootmem arena.
  * @mask: pointer to cpumask_var_t where the cpumask is returned
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