From: dhylands@gmail.com (Dave Hylands)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Build scatterlist covering a process' text segment?
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:59:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=d_eadkmH47N9r6QiiScEHajSOFQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8B479D44-48BC-464C-B4D6-6CF0F7138E52@gmail.com>
Hi,
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Metin KAYA <kayameti@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jonathan, it's kmalloc(), not kcalloc().
The kernel's kmalloc doesn't initialize the memory. There is a
function called kzalloc which will allocate and zero the memory, which
is sort of similar to the user-space calloc function, although calloc
takes num-of-items and size-of-one-item, whereas kzalloc takes
"size-of-allocation".
--
Dave Hylands
Shuswap, BC, Canada
http://www.davehylands.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-17 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-23 23:06 Build scatterlist covering a process' text segment? Arvid Brodin
2011-05-25 20:27 ` Arvid Brodin
2011-05-26 4:02 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-27 21:58 ` Arvid Brodin
2011-05-28 9:42 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-06-17 0:47 ` Arvid Brodin
2011-06-17 15:10 ` Jonathan Neuschäfer
2011-06-17 15:18 ` Metin KAYA
2011-06-17 17:59 ` Dave Hylands [this message]
2011-06-17 18:46 ` Jonathan Neuschäfer
2011-06-17 18:53 ` Dave Hylands
2011-06-17 19:00 ` Jonathan Neuschäfer
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