linux-kernel - [PATCH] IA64 perfmon: Change vmalloc to vzalloc and drop memset.

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Date:	Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:35:58 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
cc:	Stephane Eranian <eranian@....hp.com>,
	David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@....hp.com>,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] IA64 perfmon: Change vmalloc to vzalloc and drop memset.

Hi,

vzalloc() nicely zeroes memory for us, so we don't have to do a vmalloc() 
and then manually memset() the returned memory when all we want is for it 
to be zero. Patch changes this for pfm_rvmalloc().


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
---
Untested patch since I have neither the hardware nor tools to even compile 
this.

 perfmon.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
index 39e534f..3aee09d 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
@@ -829,10 +829,9 @@ pfm_rvmalloc(unsigned long size)
 	unsigned long addr;
 
 	size = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
-	mem  = vmalloc(size);
+	mem  = vzalloc(size);
 	if (mem) {
 		//printk("perfmon: CPU%d pfm_rvmalloc(%ld)=%p\n", smp_processor_id(), size, mem);
-		memset(mem, 0, size);
 		addr = (unsigned long)mem;
 		while (size > 0) {
 			pfm_reserve_page(addr);

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