linux-kernel - Re: kmalloc to kzalloc patches for drivers/base

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Message-Id: <1158572453.6069.85.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:40:52 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Om Narasimhan <om.turyx@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: Re: kmalloc to kzalloc patches for drivers/base

Ar Sul, 2006-09-17 am 17:53 -0700, ysgrifennodd Om Narasimhan:
> Tested by compiling.
> 
> Signed off by Om Narasimhan <om.turyx@...il.com>

> -	if (!(retval = kmalloc (sizeof *retval, SLAB_KERNEL)))
> +	if (!(retval = kzalloc (sizeof *retval, SLAB_KERNEL)))
>  		return retval;


NAK

Why slow all these allocations down when they don't zero the memory
anyway ?

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