{bp-15159} fs/shm/shmfs_alloc.c: Allocate zero-initialized memory in flat build #15172
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Summary
POSIX requires that the shm objects are zero-initialized. This has been broken in some earlier commits (starting from 9af5fc5)
Also fix the flat build memory allocation to allocate both object data and payload in the same chunk (as the comment also suggests). This saves allocations and memory in a system with lots of shm objects.
This PR fixes errors in applications, which run in "CONFIG_BUILD_FLAT", and assume that newly allocated shared memory is zero-initialized.
This also reduces memory consumption in smaller devices, when each shared memory object is allocated in a single chunk as originally.
The errors were introduced earlier when the SHM allocations were cache-line aligned.
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