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authorPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>2009-05-31 13:50:38 +0300
committerPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>2009-06-01 09:22:46 +0300
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slab: document kzfree() zeroing behavior
As suggested by Alan Cox, document the fact that kzfree() can zero out a great deal more memory than the what the user requested from kmalloc(). Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
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--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -166,6 +166,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(krealloc);
*
* The memory of the object @p points to is zeroed before freed.
* If @p is %NULL, kzfree() does nothing.
+ *
+ * Note: this function zeroes the whole allocated buffer which can be a good
+ * deal bigger than the requested buffer size passed to kmalloc(). So be
+ * careful when using this function in performance sensitive code.
*/
void kzfree(const void *p)
{
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