Hi,
vzalloc() nicely zeroes memory for us, so we don't have to do a vmalloc()
and then manually memset() the returned memory when all we want is for it
to be zero. Patch changes this for pfm_rvmalloc().
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Untested patch since I have neither the hardware nor tools to even compile
this.
perfmon.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
index 39e534f..3aee09d 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
@@ -829,10 +829,9 @@ pfm_rvmalloc(unsigned long size)
unsigned long addr;
size = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
- mem = vmalloc(size);
+ mem = vzalloc(size);
if (mem) {
//printk("perfmon: CPU%d pfm_rvmalloc(%ld)=%p\n", smp_processor_id(), size, mem);
- memset(mem, 0, size);
addr = (unsigned long)mem;
while (size > 0) {
pfm_reserve_page(addr);
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