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| author |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-12-09 10:14:36 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-12-09 10:17:52 -0800 |
| commit | 7fd272550bd43cc1d7289ef0ab2fa50de137e767 (patch) | |
| tree | 85c2ae7f4a7f5df3cc2cbd27056ff052ae0de5e2 /mm/slub.c | |
| parent | Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-7fd272550bd43cc1d7289ef0ab2fa50de137e767.tar.xz linux-dev-7fd272550bd43cc1d7289ef0ab2fa50de137e767.zip | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to '')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/slub.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index b9f37cb0f2e6..9c1d9f3b364f 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -1468,6 +1468,9 @@ static void *__slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s, void **object; struct page *new; + /* We handle __GFP_ZERO in the caller */ + gfpflags &= ~__GFP_ZERO; + if (!c->page) goto new_slab; |