mm: add support for __GFP_ZERO flag to dma_pool_alloc()
Currently a call to dma_pool_alloc() with a ___GFP_ZERO flag returns a non-zeroed memory region. This patchset adds support for the __GFP_ZERO flag to dma_pool_alloc(), adds 2 wrapper functions for allocing zeroed memory from a pool, and provides a coccinelle script for finding & replacing instances of dma_pool_alloc() followed by memset(0) with a single dma_pool_zalloc() call. There was some concern that this always calls memset() to zero, instead of passing __GFP_ZERO into the page allocator. [https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/15/881 ] I ran a test on my system to get an idea of how often dma_pool_alloc() calls into pool_alloc_page(). After Boot: [ 30.119863] alloc_calls:541, page_allocs:7 After an hour: [ 3600.951031] alloc_calls:9566, page_allocs:12 After copying 1GB file onto a USB drive: [ 4260.657148] alloc_calls:17225, page_allocs:12 It doesn't look like dma_pool_alloc() calls down to the page allocator very often (at least on my system). This patch (of 4): Currently the __GFP_ZERO flag is ignored by dma_pool_alloc(). Make dma_pool_alloc() zero the memory if this flag is set. Signed-off-by: Sean O. Stalley <sean.stalley@intel.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr> Cc: Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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