[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>
diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index a1f42bd..9bcc7e2 100644
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -294,6 +294,16 @@
}
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)