linux-kernel - [PATCH V2 1/3] sched: topology: drop memset() from init

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Date:   Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:45:48 +0530
From:   Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH V2 1/3] sched: topology: drop memset() from init_rootdomain()

There are only two callers of init_rootdomain(). One of them passes a
global to it and another one sends dynamically allocated root-domain.

There is no need to memset the root-domain in the first case as the
structure is already reset.

Update alloc_rootdomain() to allocate the memory with kzalloc() and
remove the memset() call from init_rootdomain().

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
---
 kernel/sched/topology.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
index 1b0b4fb12837..a2497702e628 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
@@ -242,8 +242,6 @@ void rq_attach_root(struct rq *rq, struct root_domain *rd)
 
 static int init_rootdomain(struct root_domain *rd)
 {
-	memset(rd, 0, sizeof(*rd));
-
 	if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&rd->span, GFP_KERNEL))
 		goto out;
 	if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&rd->online, GFP_KERNEL))
@@ -292,7 +290,7 @@ static struct root_domain *alloc_rootdomain(void)
 {
 	struct root_domain *rd;
 
-	rd = kmalloc(sizeof(*rd), GFP_KERNEL);
+	rd = kzalloc(sizeof(*rd), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!rd)
 		return NULL;
 
-- 
2.12.0.432.g71c3a4f4ba37