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authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>2007-07-17 04:03:29 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-17 10:23:02 -0700
commit94f6030ca792c57422f04a73e7a872d8325946d3 (patch)
tree0197f24d82b1706f1b0521f2cf68feeff64123df /block/elevator.c
parent81cda6626178cd55297831296ba8ecedbfd8b52d (diff)
downloadlinux-94f6030ca792c57422f04a73e7a872d8325946d3.tar.gz
Slab allocators: Replace explicit zeroing with __GFP_ZERO
kmalloc_node() and kmem_cache_alloc_node() were not available in a zeroing
variant in the past.  But with __GFP_ZERO it is possible now to do zeroing
while allocating.

Use __GFP_ZERO to remove the explicit clearing of memory via memset whereever
we can.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/elevator.c')
-rw-r--r--block/elevator.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c
index 4769a25d7037..d265963d1ed3 100644
--- a/block/elevator.c
+++ b/block/elevator.c
@@ -177,11 +177,10 @@ static elevator_t *elevator_alloc(request_queue_t *q, struct elevator_type *e)
 	elevator_t *eq;
 	int i;
 
-	eq = kmalloc_node(sizeof(elevator_t), GFP_KERNEL, q->node);
+	eq = kmalloc_node(sizeof(elevator_t), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, q->node);
 	if (unlikely(!eq))
 		goto err;
 
-	memset(eq, 0, sizeof(*eq));
 	eq->ops = &e->ops;
 	eq->elevator_type = e;
 	kobject_init(&eq->kobj);