On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:43:23 -0700
Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> __GFP_ZERO is implemented by the slab allocators (the page allocator
> has no knowledge about the length of the object to be zeroed). The slab
> allocators do not pass __GFP_ZERO to the page allocator.
OK, well that was weird. So
kmalloc(42, GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO);
duplicates
kzalloc(42, GFP_KERNEL);
Why do it both ways?
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