On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:

On 6/18/07, clameter@sgi.com [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

+static inline void *kmem_cache_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *k, gfp_t flags)
+{
+       return kmem_cache_alloc(k, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
+}
+
+static inline void *__kzalloc(int size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+       return kmalloc(size, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
+}

Hmm, did you check kernel text size before and after this change?
Setting the __GFP_ZERO flag at every kzalloc call-site seems like a
bad idea.

I did not check but the flags are usually constant. Compiler does the |.

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