From 3749a8f008eac3355a9e50b366ba08317a7e9cf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Tatashin Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 15:39:08 -0700 Subject: mm: zero hash tables in allocator Add a new flag HASH_ZERO which when provided grantees that the hash table that is returned by alloc_large_system_hash() is zeroed. In most cases that is what is needed by the caller. Use page level allocator's __GFP_ZERO flags to zero the memory. It is using memset() which is efficient method to zero memory and is optimized for most platforms. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488432825-92126-3-git-send-email-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin Reviewed-by: Babu Moger Cc: David Miller Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/bootmem.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/bootmem.h b/include/linux/bootmem.h index 962164d36506..e223d91b6439 100644 --- a/include/linux/bootmem.h +++ b/include/linux/bootmem.h @@ -358,6 +358,7 @@ extern void *alloc_large_system_hash(const char *tablename, #define HASH_EARLY 0x00000001 /* Allocating during early boot? */ #define HASH_SMALL 0x00000002 /* sub-page allocation allowed, min * shift passed via *_hash_shift */ +#define HASH_ZERO 0x00000004 /* Zero allocated hash table */ /* Only NUMA needs hash distribution. 64bit NUMA architectures have * sufficient vmalloc space. -- cgit v1.2.3