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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-12-09 19:14:36 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-12-09 19:17:52 +0100
commit7fd272550bd43cc1d7289ef0ab2fa50de137e767 (patch)
tree85c2ae7f4a7f5df3cc2cbd27056ff052ae0de5e2 /mm/slob.c
parentMerge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/... (diff)
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Avoid double memclear() in SLOB/SLUB
Both slob and slub react to __GFP_ZERO by clearing the allocation, which means that passing the GFP_ZERO bit down to the page allocator is just wasteful and pointless. Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index ee2ef8af0d43..773a7aa80ab5 100644
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ static void *slob_alloc(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int align, int node)
/* Not enough space: must allocate a new page */
if (!b) {
- b = slob_new_page(gfp, 0, node);
+ b = slob_new_page(gfp & ~__GFP_ZERO, 0, node);
if (!b)
return 0;
sp = (struct slob_page *)virt_to_page(b);