linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add vzalloc shortcut

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Date:	Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:18:40 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add vzalloc shortcut

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:55:17 +0800 Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Andrew Morton
> >>
> >> Also, a slightly better implementation would be
> >>
> >> static inline void * vmalloc_node_flags(unsigned long size, gfp_t flags)
> >> {
> >>        return  vmalloc_node(size, 1, flags, PAGE_KERNEL, -1,
> >>                                 builtin_return_address(0));
> >> }
> 
> Is this better? might  vmalloc_node_flags would be used by other than vmalloc?
> 
> static inline void * vmalloc_node_flags(unsigned long size, int node,
> gfp_t flags)

I have no strong opinions, really.  If we add more and more arguments
to vmalloc_node_flags() it ends up looking like vmalloc_node(), so we
may as well just call vmalloc_node().  Do whatever feels good ;)

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