[PATCH] cgroup: Avoid a memset by using vzalloc

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Sat Oct 30 2010 - 17:46:10 EST


Hi,

We can avoid doing a memset in swap_cgroup_swapon() by using vzalloc().


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
compile tested only.
page_cgroup.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_cgroup.c b/mm/page_cgroup.c
index 5bffada..34970c7 100644
--- a/mm/page_cgroup.c
+++ b/mm/page_cgroup.c
@@ -450,11 +450,10 @@ int swap_cgroup_swapon(int type, unsigned long max_pages)
length = ((max_pages/SC_PER_PAGE) + 1);
array_size = length * sizeof(void *);

- array = vmalloc(array_size);
+ array = vzalloc(array_size);
if (!array)
goto nomem;

- memset(array, 0, array_size);
ctrl = &swap_cgroup_ctrl[type];
mutex_lock(&swap_cgroup_mutex);
ctrl->length = length;

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