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| author | Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> | 2006-03-25 03:06:42 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-25 08:22:49 -0800 |
| commit | a8c0f9a41f88da703ade33f9c1626a55c786e8bb (patch) | |
| tree | 8c2904597c61b873bfd85eed4ac196dd66e6f125 /include | |
| parent | 871751e25d956ad24f129ca972b7851feaa61d53 (diff) | |
| download | linux-a8c0f9a41f88da703ade33f9c1626a55c786e8bb.tar.gz | |
[PATCH] slab: introduce kmem_cache_zalloc allocator
Introduce a memory-zeroing variant of kmem_cache_alloc. The allocator
already exits in XFS and there are potential users for it so this patch
makes the allocator available for the general public.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/slab.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h index f88e08a5802c5b..1216b09e07b109 100644 --- a/include/linux/slab.h +++ b/include/linux/slab.h @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ extern kmem_cache_t *kmem_cache_create(const char *, size_t, size_t, unsigned lo extern int kmem_cache_destroy(kmem_cache_t *); extern int kmem_cache_shrink(kmem_cache_t *); extern void *kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache_t *, gfp_t); +extern void *kmem_cache_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t); extern void kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache_t *, void *); extern unsigned int kmem_cache_size(kmem_cache_t *); extern const char *kmem_cache_name(kmem_cache_t *); @@ -156,6 +157,7 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *c, size_t, size_t, void (*)(void *, struct kmem_cache *, unsigned long)); int kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *c); void *kmem_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *c, gfp_t flags); +void *kmem_cache_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t); void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *c, void *b); const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_cache *); void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags); |