[PATCH] slab: optimize constant-size kzalloc calls

As suggested by Eric Dumazet, optimize kzalloc() calls that pass a
compile-time constant size.  Please note that the patch increases kernel
text slightly (~200 bytes for defconfig on x86).

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index b68d3d7d0359..7368479220b3 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -5,18 +5,18 @@
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
 /**
- * kzalloc - allocate memory. The memory is set to zero.
+ * __kzalloc - allocate memory. The memory is set to zero.
  * @size: how many bytes of memory are required.
  * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
  */
-void *kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+void *__kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
 {
         void *ret = ____kmalloc(size, flags);
         if (ret)
                 memset(ret, 0, size);
         return ret;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzalloc);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kzalloc);
 
 /*
  * kstrdup - allocate space for and copy an existing string