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authorPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>2006-03-25 03:06:42 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-25 08:22:49 -0800
commita8c0f9a41f88da703ade33f9c1626a55c786e8bb (patch)
tree8c2904597c61b873bfd85eed4ac196dd66e6f125
parent871751e25d956ad24f129ca972b7851feaa61d53 (diff)
[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>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/slab.h2
-rw-r--r--mm/slab.c17
-rw-r--r--mm/slob.c10
3 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index f88e08a5802..1216b09e07b 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ extern kmem_cache_t *kmem_cache_create(const char *, size_t, size_t, unsigned lo
extern int kmem_cache_destroy(kmem_cache_t *);
extern int kmem_cache_shrink(kmem_cache_t *);
extern void *kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache_t *, gfp_t);
+extern void *kmem_cache_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t);
extern void kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache_t *, void *);
extern unsigned int kmem_cache_size(kmem_cache_t *);
extern const char *kmem_cache_name(kmem_cache_t *);
@@ -156,6 +157,7 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *c, size_t, size_t,
void (*)(void *, struct kmem_cache *, unsigned long));
int kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *c);
void *kmem_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *c, gfp_t flags);
+void *kmem_cache_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t);
void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *c, void *b);
const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_cache *);
void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags);
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index a5047161084..6f5aeebd430 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3108,6 +3108,23 @@ 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.
* @cachep: the cache we're checking against
diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index a1f42bdc024..9bcc7e2cabf 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)