[PATCH 02/11] lib/scatterlist: Skip requesting zeroed allocations in sgl_alloc_order

Tvrtko Ursulin tursulin at ursulin.net
Thu Mar 1 13:28:35 UTC 2018


From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>

sg_init_table will clear the allocated block so requesting zeroed memory
from the allocator is redundant.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche at wdc.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn at suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
---
 lib/scatterlist.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c
index 068a1f494583..67164b4f7650 100644
--- a/lib/scatterlist.c
+++ b/lib/scatterlist.c
@@ -511,8 +511,7 @@ struct scatterlist *sgl_alloc_order(unsigned long length, unsigned int order,
 		nent++;
 	}
 
-	sgl = kmalloc_array(nent, sizeof(struct scatterlist),
-			    (gfp & ~GFP_DMA) | __GFP_ZERO);
+	sgl = kmalloc_array(nent, sizeof(struct scatterlist), (gfp & ~GFP_DMA));
 	if (!sgl)
 		return NULL;
 
-- 
2.14.1



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