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> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/sparse.c | 10 ++++------ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c index c7bb952..d882e88 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; } -- 1.7.5.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>