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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:16:33 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 1/3] mm: Introduce vma_init()
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Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 1:03 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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>
> I'd sleep better if this became a kmem_cache_alloc() and the memset
> was moved into vma_init().

Yeah, with the vma_init(), I guess the advantage of using
kmem_cache_zalloc() is pretty dubious.

Make it so.

        Linus