From: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet)
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC] Add __GFP_ZERO to GFP_LEVEL_MASK
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:00:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <30805.1160773222@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:46:35 PDT." <20061013134635.a983e4d7.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> It would be a bit odd to pass __GFP_ZERO into the slab allocator. Slab
> doesn't need that hint: it has its own ways of initialising the memory.
>
> What is the callsite?
It's vmalloc_user(), which does this:
ret = __vmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO, PAGE_KERNEL);
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-13 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-13 20:25 [PATCH,RFC] Add __GFP_ZERO to GFP_LEVEL_MASK Jonathan Corbet
2006-10-13 20:46 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-13 21:00 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2006-10-13 21:31 ` Andrew Morton
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