linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] slab: initialize unused alien cache entry as NULL at alloc_alien

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Date:	Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:10:11 -0600
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@...ux.intel.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] slab: initialize unused alien cache entry as NULL
 at alloc_alien_cache().

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 14:11 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Haicheng Li kirjoitti:
> > Comparing with existing code, it's a simpler way to use kzalloc_node()
> > to ensure that each unused alien cache entry is NULL.
> > 
> > CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> > CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  mm/slab.c |    6 ++----
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> > index 7dfa481..5d1a782 100644
> > --- a/mm/slab.c
> > +++ b/mm/slab.c
> > @@ -971,13 +971,11 @@ static struct array_cache **alloc_alien_cache(int 
> > node, int limit, gfp_t gfp)
> > 
> >      if (limit > 1)
> >          limit = 12;
> > -    ac_ptr = kmalloc_node(memsize, gfp, node);
> > +    ac_ptr = kzalloc_node(memsize, gfp, node);
> >      if (ac_ptr) {
> >          for_each_node(i) {
> > -            if (i == node || !node_online(i)) {
> > -                ac_ptr[i] = NULL;
> > +            if (i == node || !node_online(i))
> >                  continue;
> > -            }
> >              ac_ptr[i] = alloc_arraycache(node, limit, 0xbaadf00d, gfp);
> >              if (!ac_ptr[i]) {
> >                  for (i--; i >= 0; i--)
> 
> Christoph? Matt?

Looks like a fine cleanup.

Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>

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