We can avoid two calls to memset() in mm/memcontrol.c by using kzalloc_node(), kzalloc & vzalloc(). Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- memcontrol.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 00bb8a6..890df27 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -4176,12 +4176,11 @@ static int alloc_mem_cgroup_per_zone_info(struct mem_cgroup *mem, int node) */ if (!node_state(node, N_NORMAL_MEMORY)) tmp = -1; - pn = kmalloc_node(sizeof(*pn), GFP_KERNEL, tmp); + pn = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*pn), GFP_KERNEL, tmp); if (!pn) return 1; mem->info.nodeinfo[node] = pn; - memset(pn, 0, sizeof(*pn)); for (zone = 0; zone < MAX_NR_ZONES; zone++) { mz = &pn->zoneinfo[zone]; @@ -4206,14 +4205,13 @@ 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) goto out_free; -- Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.chaosbits.net/ Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>