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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/nommu.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/nommu.c | 49 |
1 files changed, 48 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -293,11 +293,58 @@ void *vmalloc(unsigned long size) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc); +/* + * vzalloc - allocate virtually continguos memory with zero fill + * + * @size: allocation size + * + * Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level + * allocator and map them into continguos kernel virtual space. + * The memory allocated is set to zero. + * + * For tight control over page level allocator and protection flags + * use __vmalloc() instead. + */ +void *vzalloc(unsigned long size) +{ + return __vmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO, + PAGE_KERNEL); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vzalloc); + +/** + * vmalloc_node - allocate memory on a specific node + * @size: allocation size + * @node: numa node + * + * Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level + * allocator and map them into contiguous kernel virtual space. + * + * For tight control over page level allocator and protection flags + * use __vmalloc() instead. + */ void *vmalloc_node(unsigned long size, int node) { return vmalloc(size); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_node); + +/** + * vzalloc_node - allocate memory on a specific node with zero fill + * @size: allocation size + * @node: numa node + * + * Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level + * allocator and map them into contiguous kernel virtual space. + * The memory allocated is set to zero. + * + * For tight control over page level allocator and protection flags + * use __vmalloc() instead. + */ +void *vzalloc_node(unsigned long size, int node) +{ + return vzalloc(size); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vzalloc_node); #ifndef PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC # define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC PAGE_KERNEL |