Re: [PATCH v2] afs: afs_alloc_inode: use kmem_cache_zalloc

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Feb 21 2014 - 16:47:56 EST


On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 22:00:39 +0800 Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch calls zalloc for explicit zero fill and removes all memset 0.
>

May as well fix the deceitful comment while we're in there.

--- a/fs/afs/super.c~afs-afs_alloc_inode-use-kmem_cache_zalloc-fix
+++ a/fs/afs/super.c
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ static void afs_i_init_once(void *_vnode
}

/*
- * allocate an AFS inode struct from our slab cache
+ * allocate an AFS inode struct
*/
static struct inode *afs_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
{

This isn't the most useful comment in the kernel..
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