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authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2006-01-27 17:18:29 -0500
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2006-01-27 17:18:29 -0500
commit292dd876ee765c478b27c93cc51e93a558ed58bf (patch)
tree5b740e93253295baee2a9c414a6c66d03d44a9ef /mm/util.c
parentd4ec6c7cc9a15a7a529719bc3b84f46812f9842e (diff)
parent9fdb62af92c741addbea15545f214a6e89460865 (diff)
Pull release into acpica branch
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+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+
+/**
+ * kzalloc - allocate memory. The memory is set to zero.
+ * @size: how many bytes of memory are required.
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
+ */
+void *kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ void *ret = kmalloc(size, flags);
+ if (ret)
+ memset(ret, 0, size);
+ return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzalloc);
+
+/*
+ * kstrdup - allocate space for and copy an existing string
+ *
+ * @s: the string to duplicate
+ * @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
+ */
+char *kstrdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+ size_t len;
+ char *buf;
+
+ if (!s)
+ return NULL;
+
+ len = strlen(s) + 1;
+ buf = kmalloc(len, gfp);
+ if (buf)
+ memcpy(buf, s, len);
+ return buf;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrdup);