linux/mm
Christoph Lameter d07dbea464 Slab allocators: support __GFP_ZERO in all allocators
A kernel convention for many allocators is that if __GFP_ZERO is passed to an
allocator then the allocated memory should be zeroed.

This is currently not supported by the slab allocators.  The inconsistency
makes it difficult to implement in derived allocators such as in the uncached
allocator and the pool allocators.

In addition the support zeroed allocations in the slab allocators does not
have a consistent API.  There are no zeroing allocator functions for NUMA node
placement (kmalloc_node, kmem_cache_alloc_node).  The zeroing allocations are
only provided for default allocs (kzalloc, kmem_cache_zalloc_node).
__GFP_ZERO will make zeroing universally available and does not require any
addititional functions.

So add the necessary logic to all slab allocators to support __GFP_ZERO.

The code is added to the hot path.  The gfp flags are on the stack and so the
cacheline is readily available for checking if we want a zeroed object.

Zeroing while allocating is now a frequent operation and we seem to be
gradually approaching a 1-1 parity between zeroing and not zeroing allocs.
The current tree has 3476 uses of kmalloc vs 2731 uses of kzalloc.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
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allocpercpu.c [PATCH] Allow NULL pointers in percpu_free 2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
backing-dev.c remove mm/backing-dev.c:congestion_wait_interruptible() 2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
bootmem.c [PATCH] remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL'ed symbols 2006-12-07 08:39:44 -08:00
bounce.c block: blk_max_pfn is somtimes wrong 2007-03-27 08:52:47 +02:00
fadvise.c [PATCH] mm: change uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to use f_path 2006-12-08 08:28:43 -08:00
filemap_xip.c xip sendfile removal 2007-07-10 08:04:15 +02:00
filemap.c Fix read/truncate race 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
filemap.h Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h> 2006-10-04 03:38:54 -04:00
fremap.c [PATCH] mm: more rmap debugging 2006-12-22 08:55:49 -08:00
highmem.c Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
hugetlb.c Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
internal.h Make page->private usable in compound pages 2007-05-07 12:12:53 -07:00
Kconfig Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6 2007-07-16 10:32:02 -07:00
madvise.c speed up madvise_need_mmap_write() usage 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Makefile Quicklists for page table pages 2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c memory hotplug: fix unnecessary calling of init_currenty_empty_zone() 2007-06-01 08:18:29 -07:00
memory.c Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
mempolicy.c Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
mempool.c permit mempool_free(NULL) 2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
migrate.c Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
mincore.c [PATCH] mincore: vma crossing fix 2007-02-15 09:57:03 -08:00
mlock.c do not limit locked memory when RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is RLIM_INFINITY 2007-07-16 09:05:37 -07:00
mmap.c split mmap 2007-07-16 09:05:37 -07:00
mmzone.c [PATCH] remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL'ed symbols 2006-12-07 08:39:44 -08:00
mprotect.c [PATCH] paravirt: lazy mmu mode hooks.patch 2006-10-01 00:39:33 -07:00
mremap.c security: Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap 2007-07-11 22:52:29 -04:00
msync.c Detach sched.h from mm.h 2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
nommu.c nommu: stub expand_stack() for nommu case 2007-07-16 09:05:37 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom: fix constraint deadlock 2007-05-07 12:12:55 -07:00
page_alloc.c Lumpy Reclaim V4 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
page_io.c [PATCH] swsusp: use block device offsets to identify swap locations 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
page-writeback.c dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler() cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
pdflush.c [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c Quicklists for page table pages 2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
readahead.c readahead: code cleanup 2007-05-07 12:12:52 -07:00
rmap.c mm: kill validate_anon_vma to avoid mapcount BUG 2007-06-28 11:34:53 -07:00
shmem_acl.c [PATCH] Fix typos in mm/shmem_acl.c 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
shmem.c Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
slab.c Slab allocators: support __GFP_ZERO in all allocators 2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
slob.c Slab allocators: support __GFP_ZERO in all allocators 2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
slub.c Slab allocators: support __GFP_ZERO in all allocators 2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
sparse.c Move three functions that are only needed for CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 2007-06-08 17:23:33 -07:00
swap_state.c Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
swap.c Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug 2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
swapfile.c vmscan: fix comments related to shrink_list() 2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
thrash.c Bug in mm/thrash.c function grab_swap_token() 2007-05-11 08:29:32 -07:00
tiny-shmem.c [PATCH] mm/{,tiny-}shmem.c cleanups 2007-03-01 14:53:35 -08:00
truncate.c invalidate_mapping_pages(): add cond_resched 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
util.c Slab allocators: consistent ZERO_SIZE_PTR support and NULL result semantics 2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
vmalloc.c [POWERPC] unmap_vm_area becomes unmap_kernel_range for the public 2007-06-14 22:29:56 +10:00
vmscan.c mm: clean up and kernelify shrinker registration 2007-07-17 10:23:00 -07:00
vmstat.c Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00