From e6de3988aa52debb25a427d085061f3bf1181d54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:04:30 -0700 Subject: flex_array: add flex_array_clear function Add a new function to the flex_array API: int flex_array_clear(struct flex_array *fa, unsigned int element_nr) This function will zero the element at element_nr in the flex_array. Although this is equivalent to using flex_array_put() and passing a pointer to zero'd memory, flex_array_clear() does not require such a pointer to memory that would most likely need to be allocated on the caller's stack which could be significantly large depending on element_size. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/flex_array.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/flex_array.h b/include/linux/flex_array.h index 45ff1849151..3887b21f883 100644 --- a/include/linux/flex_array.h +++ b/include/linux/flex_array.h @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ void flex_array_free(struct flex_array *fa); void flex_array_free_parts(struct flex_array *fa); int flex_array_put(struct flex_array *fa, unsigned int element_nr, void *src, gfp_t flags); +int flex_array_clear(struct flex_array *fa, unsigned int element_nr); void *flex_array_get(struct flex_array *fa, unsigned int element_nr); #endif /* _FLEX_ARRAY_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258