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slab: document kzfree() zeroing behavior

As suggested by Alan Cox, document the fact that kzfree() can zero out a great
deal more memory than the what the user requested from kmalloc().

Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Pekka Enberg 16 年之前
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mm/util.c

@@ -166,6 +166,10 @@ 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)
 {