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 <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/bootmem.h b/include/linux/bootmem.h
index 962164d..e223d91 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.