linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] mm/page_alloc.c: leverage compiler to zero out used

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Date:   Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:24:44 +0000
From:   Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mm/page_alloc.c: leverage compiler to zero out used_mask

Since we always clear used_mask before getting node order, we can
leverage compiler to do this instead of at run time.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 0e823bca3f2f..2144b6ceb119 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5587,14 +5587,13 @@ static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
 {
 	static int node_order[MAX_NUMNODES];
 	int node, load, nr_nodes = 0;
-	nodemask_t used_mask;
+	nodemask_t used_mask = {.bits = {0}};
 	int local_node, prev_node;
 
 	/* NUMA-aware ordering of nodes */
 	local_node = pgdat->node_id;
 	load = nr_online_nodes;
 	prev_node = local_node;
-	nodes_clear(used_mask);
 
 	memset(node_order, 0, sizeof(node_order));
 	while ((node = find_next_best_node(local_node, &used_mask)) >= 0) {
-- 
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