linux-kernel - [PATCH] percpu: update comments to reflect that percpu allocations are always zero-filled

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Message-ID: <4C89F47D.20309@kernel.org>
Date:	Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:03:57 +0200
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
CC:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, paulus@...ba.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, fweisbec@...il.com,
	perfmon2-devel@...ts.sf.net, eranian@...il.com,
	robert.richter@....com, acme@...hat.com
Subject: [PATCH] percpu: update comments to reflect that percpu allocations
 are always zero-filled

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
---
 mm/percpu.c |   11 ++++++-----
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
index 0cd4bf6..12dea33 100644
--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -826,8 +826,8 @@ fail_unlock_mutex:
  * @size: size of area to allocate in bytes
  * @align: alignment of area (max PAGE_SIZE)
  *
- * Allocate percpu area of @size bytes aligned at @align.  Might
- * sleep.  Might trigger writeouts.
+ * Allocate zero-filled percpu area of @size bytes aligned at @align.
+ * Might sleep.  Might trigger writeouts.
  *
  * CONTEXT:
  * Does GFP_KERNEL allocation.
@@ -846,9 +846,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__alloc_percpu);
  * @size: size of area to allocate in bytes
  * @align: alignment of area (max PAGE_SIZE)
  *
- * Allocate percpu area of @size bytes aligned at @align from reserved
- * percpu area if arch has set it up; otherwise, allocation is served
- * from the same dynamic area.  Might sleep.  Might trigger writeouts.
+ * Allocate zero-filled percpu area of @size bytes aligned at @align
+ * from reserved percpu area if arch has set it up; otherwise,
+ * allocation is served from the same dynamic area.  Might sleep.
+ * Might trigger writeouts.
  *
  * CONTEXT:
  * Does GFP_KERNEL allocation.
-- 
1.7.1

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