On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 21:35 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> Could we please create a more generic variation of this patch -- may be a
> function called kmem_cache_alloc_set(). The function would not only
> memset the data to 0, but instead to any specified pattern passed as
> an argument.
No, no, no! I am introducing kmem_cache_zalloc() because there are
existing users in the tree. I plan to kill the slab wrappers from XFS
completely which is why I need this. We already have object constructors
for what you're describing.
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 21:35 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> This could be used to poison allocated memory. Passing 0 would make
> this equivalent to kmem_cache_zalloc(). Basically, instead of doing
I am not sure I understand what you mean. We already have slab poisoning
and that's in mm/slab.c. Why would you want to make the callers aware of
that?
Pekka
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