linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] mm/slub: move struct track init out of set

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Date:   Tue, 5 Apr 2022 14:40:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
cc:     Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        patches@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Oliver Glitta <glittao@...il.com>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>,
        Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] mm/slub: move struct track init out of
 set_track()

On Mon, 4 Apr 2022, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> set_track() either zeroes out the struct track or fills it, depending on
> the addr parameter. This is unnecessary as there's only one place that
> calls it for the initialization - init_tracking(). We can simply do the
> zeroing there, with a single memset() that covers both TRACK_ALLOC and
> TRACK_FREE as they are adjacent.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> Reviewed-and-tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>