[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 04/12] linux_compat: handle __GFP_ZERO in kmalloc()

[Simon Glass]

On 7 July 2015 at 22:29, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
> Currently, kzalloc() returns zero-filled memory, while kmalloc()
> simply ignores the second argument and never fills the memory
> area with zeros.
>
> I want kmalloc(size, __GFP_ZERO) to behave as kzalloc() does,
> which will make it easier to add more memory allocator variants.
>
> With the introduction of __GFP_ZERO flag, going forward, kzmalloc()
> variants can fall back to kmalloc() enabling the __GFP_ZERO flag.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
> ---
>
>  include/linux/compat.h | 20 ++++++++++++--------
>  lib/linux_compat.c     | 13 ++++++-------
>  2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>