Slab allocators: Replace explicit zeroing with __GFP_ZERO
kmalloc_node() and kmem_cache_alloc_node() were not available in a zeroing
variant in the past. But with __GFP_ZERO it is possible now to do zeroing
while allocating.
Use __GFP_ZERO to remove the explicit clearing of memory via memset whereever
we can.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index ddf8714..8e05a11 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -432,11 +432,12 @@
area->nr_pages = nr_pages;
/* Please note that the recursion is strictly bounded. */
if (array_size > PAGE_SIZE) {
- pages = __vmalloc_node(array_size, gfp_mask, PAGE_KERNEL, node);
+ pages = __vmalloc_node(array_size, gfp_mask | __GFP_ZERO,
+ PAGE_KERNEL, node);
area->flags |= VM_VPAGES;
} else {
pages = kmalloc_node(array_size,
- (gfp_mask & GFP_LEVEL_MASK),
+ (gfp_mask & GFP_LEVEL_MASK) | __GFP_ZERO,
node);
}
area->pages = pages;
@@ -445,7 +446,6 @@
kfree(area);
return NULL;
}
- memset(area->pages, 0, array_size);
for (i = 0; i < area->nr_pages; i++) {
if (node < 0)
