From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2113E6B0087 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:16:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (smtp.ultrahosting.com [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ultrahosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DACD382C4E9 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:20:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from smtp.ultrahosting.com ([74.213.175.254]) by localhost (smtp.ultrahosting.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sYAbqqQxKltl for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:20:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from qirst.com (unknown [74.213.171.31]) by smtp.ultrahosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81B8082C4EA for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:20:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:08:21 -0500 (EST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [patch 1/8] slab: introduce kzfree() In-Reply-To: <20090216152751.GA27520@cmpxchg.org> Message-ID: References: <20090216142926.440561506@cmpxchg.org> <20090216144725.572446535@cmpxchg.org> <20090216152751.GA27520@cmpxchg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Johannes Weiner Cc: Andrew Morton , Pekka Enberg , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matt Mackall , Nick Piggin List-ID: Why would you want to zero an object on release? Is this for security? Please give us some rationale for this. Do we need free on zero now for all allocators? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org