linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] add __GFP_ZERP to GFP_LEVEL

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707231539520.3607@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:41:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	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, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> OK, well that was weird.  So
> 
> 	kmalloc(42, GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO);
> 
> duplicates
> 
> 	kzalloc(42, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> Why do it both ways?

Both ways? The latter *is* the former. That's how kzalloc() is implemented 
these days.

Andrew - all these patches came through you. You didn't realize?

		Linus
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