Slab allocators: Replace explicit zeroing with __GFP_ZERO
kmalloc_node() and kmem_cache_alloc_node() were not available in a zeroing
variant in the past. But with __GFP_ZERO it is possible now to do zeroing
while allocating.
Use __GFP_ZERO to remove the explicit clearing of memory via memset whereever
we can.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c
index 3e8f1fe..02d5ec3 100644
--- a/mm/mempool.c
+++ b/mm/mempool.c
@@ -62,10 +62,9 @@
mempool_free_t *free_fn, void *pool_data, int node_id)
{
mempool_t *pool;
- pool = kmalloc_node(sizeof(*pool), GFP_KERNEL, node_id);
+ pool = kmalloc_node(sizeof(*pool), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, node_id);
if (!pool)
return NULL;
- memset(pool, 0, sizeof(*pool));
pool->elements = kmalloc_node(min_nr * sizeof(void *),
GFP_KERNEL, node_id);
if (!pool->elements) {