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[PATCH] cgroup: prefer [kv]zalloc over [kv]malloc+memset in memory controller code. [message #41961] Mon, 01 November 2010 19:35
Jesper Juhl is currently offline  Jesper Juhl
Messages: 7
Registered: October 2010
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Hi (please CC me on replies),

In mem_cgroup_alloc() we currently do either kmalloc() or vmalloc() then
followed by memset() to zero the memory. This can be more efficiently
achieved by using kzalloc() and vzalloc().


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
---
memcontrol.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 9a99cfa..90da698 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4199,14 +4199,13 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void)

/* Can be very big if MAX_NUMNODES is very big */
if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
- mem = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ mem = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
else
- mem = vmalloc(size);
+ mem = vzalloc(size);

if (!mem)
return NULL;

- memset(mem, 0, size);
mem->stat = alloc_percpu(struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu);
if (!mem->stat) {
if (size < PAGE_SIZE)


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