linux-kernel - [PATCH] percpu: zero memory more efficiently in mm/percpu.c::pcpu_mem

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Date:	Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:58:24 +0200
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH] percpu: zero memory more efficiently in mm/percpu.c::pcpu_mem_alloc()

Don't do vmalloc() + memset() when vzalloc() will do.

tj: dropped unnecessary temp variable ptr.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
---
Applied with slight modification.  Thank you.

 mm/percpu.c |    8 ++------
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
index efe8168..9e16d1c 100644
--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -293,12 +293,8 @@ static void *pcpu_mem_alloc(size_t size)

 	if (size <= PAGE_SIZE)
 		return kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
-	else {
-		void *ptr = vmalloc(size);
-		if (ptr)
-			memset(ptr, 0, size);
-		return ptr;
-	}
+	else
+		return vzalloc(size);
 }

 /**
-- 
1.7.1

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