Re: [patch 05/26] Slab allocators: Cleanup zeroing allocations

On 6/18/07, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

+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.
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