linux-kernel - ok, maybe i misread that whole "kmem_cache

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612191829510.14612@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:32:01 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: ok, maybe i misread that whole "kmem_cache_alloc()" thing


  all right, i may have misread what's going on with
kmem_cache_alloc() and kmem_cache_zalloc(), and my earlier submission
may be entirely nonsense, since it involved transformations like this:

         * it with privilege level 3 because the IVE uses non-privileged accesses to these
         * tables.  IA-32 segmentation is used to protect against IA-32 accesses to them.
         */
-       vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+       vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (vma) {
-               memset(vma, 0, sizeof(*vma));
                vma->vm_mm = current->mm;
                vma->vm_start = IA32_GDT_OFFSET;
                vma->vm_end = vma->vm_start + PAGE_SIZE;


can someone briefly tell me if what i did makes sense?

rday
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