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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2012-04-08 21:48:52 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2012-04-08 21:48:52 +0200
commite75d660672ddd11704b7f0fdb8ff21968587b266 (patch)
treeccb9c107744c10b553c0373e450bee3971d16c00 /include/linux/slab.h
parent61282f37927143e45b03153f3e7b48d6b702147a (diff)
parent0034102808e0dbbf3a2394b82b1bb40b5778de9e (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Merge with latest Linus' tree, as I have incoming patches that fix code that is newer than current HEAD of for-next. Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/slab.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/slab.h17
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 573c809c33d..a595dce6b0c 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ size_t ksize(const void *);
#endif
/**
- * kcalloc - allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero.
+ * kmalloc_array - allocate memory for an array.
* @n: number of elements.
* @size: element size.
* @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
@@ -240,11 +240,22 @@ size_t ksize(const void *);
* for general use, and so are not documented here. For a full list of
* potential flags, always refer to linux/gfp.h.
*/
-static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+static inline void *kmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
{
if (size != 0 && n > ULONG_MAX / size)
return NULL;
- return __kmalloc(n * size, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
+ return __kmalloc(n * size, flags);
+}
+
+/**
+ * kcalloc - allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero.
+ * @n: number of elements.
+ * @size: element size.
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc).
+ */
+static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ return kmalloc_array(n, size, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
}
#if !defined(CONFIG_NUMA) && !defined(CONFIG_SLOB)