mm/sparse: optimize sparse_index_alloc

With CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME, the two levels of memory section descriptors are allocated from slab or bootmem. When allocating from slab, let slab/bootmem allocator clear the memory chunk. We needn't clear it explicitly. Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mrcsosa · Aug 1, 2012 · 5b760e6 · 5b760e6
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diff --git 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;
 }