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[2/4] mm: Add dma_pool_zalloc() call to DMA API

Message ID 1436994883-16563-3-git-send-email-sean.stalley@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
Delegated to: Bjorn Helgaas
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sostalle July 15, 2015, 9:14 p.m. UTC 
Add a wrapper function for dma_pool_alloc() to get zeroed memory.

Signed-off-by: Sean O. Stalley <sean.stalley@intel.com>
---
 Documentation/DMA-API.txt | 7 +++++++
 include/linux/dmapool.h   | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
index 5208840..988f757 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
@@ -104,6 +104,13 @@  crossing restrictions, pass 0 for alloc; passing 4096 says memory allocated
 from this pool must not cross 4KByte boundaries.
 
 
+	void *dma_pool_zalloc(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t mem_flags,
+			      dma_addr_t *handle)
+
+Wraps dma_pool_alloc() and also zeroes the returned memory if the
+allocation attempt succeeded.
+
+
 	void *dma_pool_alloc(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t gfp_flags,
 			dma_addr_t *dma_handle);
 
diff --git a/include/linux/dmapool.h b/include/linux/dmapool.h
index 022e34f..6d8079b 100644
--- a/include/linux/dmapool.h
+++ b/include/linux/dmapool.h
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@  void dma_pool_destroy(struct dma_pool *pool);
 void *dma_pool_alloc(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t mem_flags,
 		     dma_addr_t *handle);
 
+static inline void *dma_pool_zalloc(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t mem_flags,
+				    dma_addr_t *handle)
+{
+	return dma_pool_alloc(pool, mem_flags | __GFP_ZERO, handle);
+}
+
 void dma_pool_free(struct dma_pool *pool, void *vaddr, dma_addr_t addr);
 
 /*