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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200 |
| commit | a1922ed661ab2c1637d0b10cde933bd9cd33d965 (patch) | |
| tree | 0f1777542b385ebefd30b3586d830fd8ed6fda5b /mm/util.c | |
| parent | 75e33751ca8bbb72dd6f1a74d2810ddc8cbe4bdf (diff) | |
| parent | d28daf923ac5e4a0d7cecebae56f3e339189366b (diff) | |
Merge branch 'tracing/core' into tracing/hw-breakpoints
Conflicts:
arch/Kconfig
kernel/trace/trace.h
Merge reason: resolve the conflicts, plus adopt to the new
ring-buffer APIs.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index d5d2213728c5..7c35ad95f927 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -168,6 +168,10 @@ 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) { |