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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200
commita1922ed661ab2c1637d0b10cde933bd9cd33d965 (patch)
tree0f1777542b385ebefd30b3586d830fd8ed6fda5b /mm/util.c
parenttracing/ksym_tracer: support quick clear for ksym_trace_filter -- v2 (diff)
parentMerge branch 'tracing/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into tracing/core (diff)
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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>
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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)
{