1 files changed, 48 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 88ff091eb07a..30b5c20eec15 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -293,11 +293,58 @@ void *vmalloc(unsigned long size)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc);
 
+/*
+ *	vzalloc - allocate virtually continguos memory with zero fill
+ *
+ *	@size:		allocation size
+ *
+ *	Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level
+ *	allocator and map them into continguos kernel virtual space.
+ *	The memory allocated is set to zero.
+ *
+ *	For tight control over page level allocator and protection flags
+ *	use __vmalloc() instead.
+ */
+void *vzalloc(unsigned long size)
+{
+	return __vmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO,
+			PAGE_KERNEL);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vzalloc);
+
+/**
+ * vmalloc_node - allocate memory on a specific node
+ * @size:	allocation size
+ * @node:	numa node
+ *
+ * Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level
+ * allocator and map them into contiguous kernel virtual space.
+ *
+ * For tight control over page level allocator and protection flags
+ * use __vmalloc() instead.
+ */
 void *vmalloc_node(unsigned long size, int node)
 {
 	return vmalloc(size);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_node);
+
+/**
+ * vzalloc_node - allocate memory on a specific node with zero fill
+ * @size:	allocation size
+ * @node:	numa node
+ *
+ * Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level
+ * allocator and map them into contiguous kernel virtual space.
+ * The memory allocated is set to zero.
+ *
+ * For tight control over page level allocator and protection flags
+ * use __vmalloc() instead.
+ */
+void *vzalloc_node(unsigned long size, int node)
+{
+	return vzalloc(size);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vzalloc_node);
 
 #ifndef PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC
 # define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC PAGE_KERNEL