On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, Andrey Ryabinin wrote: > It could be used not only for irq_desc. Grepping sources gave me 7 possible users. > > We already have zeroing variants of kmalloc/kmalloc_node/kmem_cache_alloc, > so why kmem_cache_alloc_node is special? Why do we need this at all? You can always add the __GFP_ZERO flag and any alloc function will then zero the memory for you. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>