From a8c0f9a41f88da703ade33f9c1626a55c786e8bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 03:06:42 -0800
Subject: [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>
---
mm/slab.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
mm/slob.c | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
(limited to 'mm')
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index a5047161084e..6f5aeebd4306 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3107,6 +3107,23 @@ void *kmem_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc);
+/**
+ * kmem_cache_alloc - Allocate an object. The memory is set to zero.
+ * @cache: The cache to allocate from.
+ * @flags: See kmalloc().
+ *
+ * Allocate an object from this cache and set the allocated memory to zero.
+ * The flags are only relevant if the cache has no available objects.
+ */
+void *kmem_cache_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *cache, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ void *ret = __cache_alloc(cache, flags, __builtin_return_address(0));
+ if (ret)
+ memset(ret, 0, obj_size(cache));
+ return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_zalloc);
+
/**
* kmem_ptr_validate - check if an untrusted pointer might
* be a slab entry.
diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index a1f42bdc0245..9bcc7e2cabfd 100644
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -294,6 +294,16 @@ void *kmem_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *c, gfp_t flags)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc);
+void *kmem_cache_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *c, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ void *ret = kmem_cache_alloc(c, flags);
+ if (ret)
+ memset(ret, 0, c->size);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_zalloc);
+
void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *c, void *b)
{
if (c->dtor)
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