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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:13:06 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Daniel Phillips <phillips@...gle.com>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] add __GFP_ZERP to GFP_LEVEL_MASK On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:43:23 -0700 Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> wrote: > __GFP_ZERO is implemented by the slab allocators (the page allocator > has no knowledge about the length of the object to be zeroed). The slab > allocators do not pass __GFP_ZERO to the page allocator. OK, well that was weird. So kmalloc(42, GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO); duplicates kzalloc(42, GFP_KERNEL); Why do it both ways? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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