[sheepdog] [PATCH] util: make xvalloc() return zeroed memory
MORITA Kazutaka
morita.kazutaka at gmail.com
Thu Jan 16 07:36:13 CET 2014
At Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:54:42 +0900,
Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
>
> At Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:16:00 +0800,
> Liu Yuan wrote:
> >
> > This actuall fixes a bug that 045 fails with -ec specified. Instead of add a
> > memset() to init_erasure_buffer() to fix the bug, I prefer to make xvalloc()
> > a zeroed memory version, because:
> >
> > - present CPU and glibc is very good at zero out a memory region.
> > - zeroed version will avoid future misuage of xvalloc() that expect it to return
> > zeroed memory.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Liu Yuan <namei.unix at gmail.com>
> > ---
> > lib/util.c | 2 ++
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> Looks good to me.
> Reviewed-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake.hitoshi at lab.ntt.co.jp>
Applied, thanks.
Kazutaka
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