Build scatterlist covering a process' text segment?
Dave Hylands
dhylands at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 13:59:19 EDT 2011
Hi,
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Metin KAYA <kayameti at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jonathan, it's kmalloc(), not kcalloc().
The kernel's kmalloc doesn't initialize the memory. There is a
function called kzalloc which will allocate and zero the memory, which
is sort of similar to the user-space calloc function, although calloc
takes num-of-items and size-of-one-item, whereas kzalloc takes
"size-of-allocation".
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Dave Hylands
Shuswap, BC, Canada
http://www.davehylands.com
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