[PATCH] slab: introduce kmem_cache_zalloc allocator

Introduce a memory-zeroing variant of kmem_cache_alloc.  The allocator
already exits in XFS and there are potential users for it so this patch
makes the allocator available for the general public.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index a1f42bdc0245..9bcc7e2cabfd 100644
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -294,6 +294,16 @@ void *kmem_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *c, gfp_t flags)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc);
 
+void *kmem_cache_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *c, gfp_t flags)
+{
+        void *ret = kmem_cache_alloc(c, flags);
+        if (ret)
+                memset(ret, 0, c->size);
+
+        return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_zalloc);
+
 void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *c, void *b)
 {
         if (c->dtor)