Re: memfill

David Howells
2017-02-07T17:30:12Z

Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:

> You've misunderstood the purpose of memfill. memfill allows the caller
> to specify a pattern which is not a single byte in size, eg memfill(addr,
> 0x12345678, 64) would result in 0x12345678 being reproduced 16 times.
> memset(addr, 0x12345678, 64) would result in 0x78 being reproduced
> 64 times.

Ah. Should it take a unsigned int rather than an unsigned long?

David