Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: sl[aou]b: introduce kmem_cache_zalloc_node()

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:

> It could be used not only for irq_desc. Grepping sources gave me 7 possible users.
>
> We already have zeroing variants of kmalloc/kmalloc_node/kmem_cache_alloc,
> so why kmem_cache_alloc_node is special?

Why do we need this at all? You can always add the __GFP_ZERO flag and any
alloc function will then zero the memory for you.

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