From 7fd272550bd43cc1d7289ef0ab2fa50de137e767 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 10:14:36 -0800
Subject: Avoid double memclear() in SLOB/SLUB

Both slob and slub react to __GFP_ZERO by clearing the allocation, which
means that passing the GFP_ZERO bit down to the page allocator is just
wasteful and pointless.

Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 mm/slub.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'mm/slub.c')

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index b9f37cb0f2e6..9c1d9f3b364f 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1468,6 +1468,9 @@ static void *__slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s,
 	void **object;
 	struct page *new;
 
+	/* We handle __GFP_ZERO in the caller */
+	gfpflags &= ~__GFP_ZERO;
+
 	if (!c->page)
 		goto new_slab;
 
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