linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 1/3] mm: Introduce vma

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFz1Vj3b2w-nOBdV5=WwsCYhSBprjPjGog6=_=q75Z5Z-w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:16:33 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 1/3] mm: Introduce vma_init()

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 1:03 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> I'd sleep better if this became a kmem_cache_alloc() and the memset
> was moved into vma_init().

Yeah, with the vma_init(), I guess the advantage of using
kmem_cache_zalloc() is pretty dubious.

Make it so.

        Linus