linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab: initialize unused alien cache entry as NULL at alloc_alien

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Date:	Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:38:05 -0600
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, andi@...stfloor.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: initialize unused alien cache entry as NULL at
 alloc_alien_cache().

On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 20:38 +0800, Haicheng Li wrote:

>   	ac_ptr = kmalloc_node(memsize, gfp, node);
>   	if (ac_ptr) {
> +		memset(ac_ptr, 0, memsize);

Please use kzalloc_node here.

I'm not sure what's going on with nr_node_id vs MAX_NUMNODES, so I think
we need to see an answer to Christoph's question before going forward
with this.

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