linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/10] Pidns: use kzalloc when allocating new pid

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Message-ID: <482C16EA.4010301@openvz.org>
Date:	Thu, 15 May 2008 14:56:42 +0400
From:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/10] Pidns: use kzalloc when allocating new pid_namespace
 struct

It makes many fields initialization implicit helping in auto-setting
#ifdef-ed fields (bsd-acct related pointer will be such).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
---
 kernel/pid_namespace.c |    8 ++------
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
index 98702b4..06331cc 100644
--- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static struct pid_namespace *create_pid_namespace(unsigned int level)
 	struct pid_namespace *ns;
 	int i;
 
-	ns = kmem_cache_alloc(pid_ns_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+	ns = kmem_cache_zalloc(pid_ns_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (ns == NULL)
 		goto out;
 
@@ -84,17 +84,13 @@ static struct pid_namespace *create_pid_namespace(unsigned int level)
 		goto out_free_map;
 
 	kref_init(&ns->kref);
-	ns->last_pid = 0;
-	ns->child_reaper = NULL;
 	ns->level = level;
 
 	set_bit(0, ns->pidmap[0].page);
 	atomic_set(&ns->pidmap[0].nr_free, BITS_PER_PAGE - 1);
 
-	for (i = 1; i < PIDMAP_ENTRIES; i++) {
-		ns->pidmap[i].page = NULL;
+	for (i = 1; i < PIDMAP_ENTRIES; i++)
 		atomic_set(&ns->pidmap[i].nr_free, BITS_PER_PAGE);
-	}
 
 	return ns;
 
-- 
1.5.3.4
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