linux-kernel - [PATCH 71] kernel/sched.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kcalloc

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Date:	Wed, 1 Aug 2007 00:03:44 +0200
From:	Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, gregkh@...e.de
Subject: [PATCH 71] kernel/sched.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kcalloc

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>

 kernel/sched.c | 166559 -> 166517 (-42 bytes)
 kernel/sched.o | 445965 -> 445941 (-24 bytes)

 kernel/sched.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1-a/kernel/sched.c	2007-07-26 13:07:44.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1-b/kernel/sched.c	2007-07-31 15:10:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -5167,10 +5167,10 @@ static struct ctl_table sd_ctl_root[] =

 static struct ctl_table *sd_alloc_ctl_entry(int n)
 {
-	struct ctl_table *entry =
-		kmalloc(n * sizeof(struct ctl_table), GFP_KERNEL);
+	struct ctl_table *entry;
+
+	entry = kcalloc(n, sizeof(struct ctl_table), GFP_KERNEL);
 	BUG_ON(!entry);
-	memset(entry, 0, n * sizeof(struct ctl_table));
 	return entry;
 }

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