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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:06:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Subject: [PATCH] Perf, AMD: Prefer kzalloc() over kmalloc()+memset() in amd_alloc_nb() Hi, I believe this would be an improvement? Prefer kzalloc() over kmalloc()+memset() in amd_alloc_nb(). Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net> --- perf_event_amd.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd.c index 46d5844..a3787b2 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd.c @@ -280,11 +280,10 @@ static struct amd_nb *amd_alloc_nb(int cpu, int nb_id) struct amd_nb *nb; int i; - nb = kmalloc(sizeof(struct amd_nb), GFP_KERNEL); + nb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct amd_nb), GFP_KERNEL); if (!nb) return NULL; - memset(nb, 0, sizeof(*nb)); nb->nb_id = nb_id; /* -- Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net> http://www.chaosbits.net/ Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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