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| author | Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI> | 2005-09-06 15:18:31 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-09-07 16:57:45 -0700 |
| commit | dd3927105b6f65afb7dac17682172cdfb86d3f00 (patch) | |
| tree | 5cf282aff500cad23b9d7e13dc19b2b2d31e1ce6 /mm/slab.c | |
| parent | 640e803376b9c4072f69fec42e304c974a631298 (diff) | |
| download | linux-dd3927105b6f65afb7dac17682172cdfb86d3f00.tar.bz2 | |
[PATCH] introduce and use kzalloc
This patch introduces a kzalloc wrapper and converts kernel/ to use it. It
saves a little program text.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slab.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/slab.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index a9ff4f7f9860..d7c4443991fe 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -2558,24 +2558,18 @@ void kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache_t *cachep, void *objp) EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free); /** - * kcalloc - allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero. - * @n: number of elements. - * @size: element size. + * kzalloc - allocate memory. The memory is set to zero. + * @size: how many bytes of memory are required. * @flags: the type of memory to allocate. */ -void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, unsigned int __nocast flags) +void *kzalloc(size_t size, unsigned int __nocast flags) { - void *ret = NULL; - - if (n != 0 && size > INT_MAX / n) - return ret; - - ret = kmalloc(n * size, flags); + void *ret = kmalloc(size, flags); if (ret) - memset(ret, 0, n * size); + memset(ret, 0, size); return ret; } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(kcalloc); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzalloc); /** * kfree - free previously allocated memory |