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>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

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;