Merge commit 'v2.6.26-rc9' into x86/cpu

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 805ed4b92f9..9aa90a6f20e 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * Written by Mark Hemment, 1996 (markhe@nextd.demon.co.uk).
  *
- * (C) SGI 2006, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
+ * (C) SGI 2006, Christoph Lameter
  * 	Cleaned up and restructured to ease the addition of alternative
  * 	implementations of SLAB allocators.
  */
@@ -276,6 +276,17 @@ static inline void *kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
 	return kmalloc(size, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
 }
 
+/**
+ * kzalloc_node - allocate zeroed memory from a particular memory node.
+ * @size: how many bytes of memory are required.
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc).
+ * @node: memory node from which to allocate
+ */
+static inline void *kzalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
+{
+	return kmalloc_node(size, flags | __GFP_ZERO, node);
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_SLABINFO
 extern const struct seq_operations slabinfo_op;
 ssize_t slabinfo_write(struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);