[Robert P. J. Day - Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 04:48:28AM -0400] | On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: | | > Hi list, | > | > could anyone tell me why there is no official memzero function (or | > macros) in the kernel. As I see a lot of kernel parts calls for it | > (defying own macros as alias to memset). Maybe there is a special | > reason not to do so? Actually my suggestion is to define _one_ | > general macros for this. | | i brought up this issue on the KJ list once upon a time: | | https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/kernel-janitors/2007-February/017847.html | | and there didn't seem to be much enthusiasm for it. | | however, i am still curious why there isn't more use of the | already-defined "clear_page" macro. most architectures appear to | define it: | | $ grep -r "define.*clear_page" include | | but there are still numerous explicit calls to memset() to zero a | chunk of memory that is exactly PAGE_SIZE in size. just an | observation. | | rday | -- | ======================================================================== | Robert P. J. Day | Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry | Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA | | http://crashcourse.ca | ======================================================================== | Thanks Robert for the answer, I'll mark this (clear_page) in my "must to take a look" list ;) Well if there is no strong reason of keeping this separate '#define memzero' I think it's a good case to merge them in some _single_ #define ;) Waiting for other comments... P.S. In a mail you pointed to said that memset(...,0,...) is quite clear - yes it's quite clear indeed but we already _have_ a lot of '#define memzero' and who knows or may give the guarantee that new '#define memzero '_will not_' appear in the kernel. Cyrill -
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