With CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME, the two level of memory section
descriptors are allocated from slab or bootmem. When allocating
from slab, let slab/bootmem allocator to clear the memory chunk.
We needn't clear that explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/sparse.c | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index 6a4bf91..781fa04 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -65,14 +65,12 @@ static struct mem_section noinline __init_refok *sparse_index_alloc(int nid)
if (slab_is_available()) {
if (node_state(nid, N_HIGH_MEMORY))
- section = kmalloc_node(array_size, GFP_KERNEL, nid);
+ section = kzalloc_node(array_size, GFP_KERNEL, nid);
else
- section = kmalloc(array_size, GFP_KERNEL);
- } else
+ section = kzalloc(array_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ } else {
section = alloc_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(nid), array_size);
-
- if (section)
- memset(section, 0, array_size);
+ }
return section;
}
--
1.7.9.5
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