linux-kernel - [PATCHv2 01/24] sys_swapon: use vzalloc instead of vmalloc/memset

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Message-Id: <1299343345-3984-2-git-send-email-cesarb@cesarb.net>
Date:	Sat,  5 Mar 2011 13:42:02 -0300
From:	Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@...arb.net>
To:	linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric B Munson <emunson@...bm.net>,
	Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@...arb.net>
Subject: [PATCHv2 01/24] sys_swapon: use vzalloc instead of vmalloc/memset

Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@...arb.net>
Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@...bm.net>
Acked-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@...bm.net>
---
 mm/swapfile.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 0341c57..3fe8913 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -2047,13 +2047,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags)
 		goto bad_swap;
 
 	/* OK, set up the swap map and apply the bad block list */
-	swap_map = vmalloc(maxpages);
+	swap_map = vzalloc(maxpages);
 	if (!swap_map) {
 		error = -ENOMEM;
 		goto bad_swap;
 	}
 
-	memset(swap_map, 0, maxpages);
 	nr_good_pages = maxpages - 1;	/* omit header page */
 
 	for (i = 0; i < swap_header->info.nr_badpages; i++) {
-- 
1.7.4

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