[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 04/14] linux_compat: handle __GFP_ZERO in kmalloc()

Simon Glass
2015-07-22T23:24:55Z

On 13 July 2015 at 01:47, Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com> wrote:
> Hi Masahiro,
>
>> Currently, kzalloc() returns zero-filled memory, while kmalloc()
>> simply ignores the second argument and never fills the memory
>> area with zeros.
>>
>> I want kmalloc(size, __GFP_ZERO) to behave as kzalloc() does,
>> which will make it easier to add more memory allocator variants.
>>
>> With the introduction of __GFP_ZERO flag, going forward, kzmalloc()
>> variants can fall back to kmalloc() enabling the __GFP_ZERO flag.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
>> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes in v2: None
>>
>> include/linux/compat.h | 20 ++++++++++++--------
>> lib/linux_compat.c | 13 ++++++-------
>> 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

Applied to u-boot-dm, thanks!