Sep 27 2012

ext4: use kmem_cache_zalloc instead of kmem_cache_alloc/memset 

Author: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>

Using kmem_cache_zalloc() instead of kmem_cache_alloc() and memset().

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Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 

---
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index bb821a9..8ec6f88 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -2232,12 +2232,11 @@ int ext4_mb_add_groupinfo(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group,
 		sbi->s_group_info[group >> EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK_BITS(sb)];
 	i = group & (EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK(sb) - 1);
 
-	meta_group_info[i] = kmem_cache_alloc(cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+	meta_group_info[i] = kmem_cache_zalloc(cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (meta_group_info[i] == NULL) {
 		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "can't allocate buddy mem");
 		goto exit_group_info;
 	}
-	memset(meta_group_info[i], 0, kmem_cache_size(cachep));
 	set_bit(EXT4_GROUP_INFO_NEED_INIT_BIT,
 		&(meta_group_info[i]->bb_state));
 
@@ -4010,7 +4009,6 @@ ext4_mb_initialize_context(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac,
 	ext4_get_group_no_and_offset(sb, goal, &group, &block);
 
 	/* set up allocation goals */
-	memset(ac, 0, sizeof(struct ext4_allocation_context));
 	ac->ac_b_ex.fe_logical = ar->logical & ~(sbi->s_cluster_ratio - 1);
 	ac->ac_status = AC_STATUS_CONTINUE;
 	ac->ac_sb = sb;
@@ -4293,7 +4291,7 @@ ext4_fsblk_t ext4_mb_new_blocks(handle_t *handle,
 		}
 	}
 
-	ac = kmem_cache_alloc(ext4_ac_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
+	ac = kmem_cache_zalloc(ext4_ac_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!ac) {
 		ar->len = 0;
 		*errp = -ENOMEM;

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