Re: [PATCH] add __GFP_ZERP to GFP_LEVEL_MASK

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> OK, well that was weird.  So
> 
> 	kmalloc(42, GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO);
> 
> duplicates
> 
> 	kzalloc(42, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> Why do it both ways?

Both ways? The latter *is* the former. That's how kzalloc() is implemented 
these days.

Andrew - all these patches came through you. You didn't realize?

		Linus
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