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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	andi@firstfloor.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: initialize unused alien cache entry as NULL at alloc_alien_cache().
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:47:39 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0912220945250.12048@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B30BDA8.1070904@linux.intel.com>

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Haicheng Li wrote:

>  	struct array_cache **ac_ptr;
> -	int memsize = sizeof(void *) * nr_node_ids;
> +	int memsize = sizeof(void *) * MAX_NUMNODES;
>  	int i;

Why does the alien cache pointer array size have to be increased? node ids
beyond nr_node_ids cannot be used.


>
>  	if (limit > 1)
>  		limit = 12;
>  	ac_ptr = kmalloc_node(memsize, gfp, node);

Use kzalloc to ensure zeroed memory.

>  	if (ac_ptr) {
> +		memset(ac_ptr, 0, memsize);
>  		for_each_node(i) {
> -			if (i == node || !node_online(i)) {
> -				ac_ptr[i] = NULL;
> +			if (i == node || !node_online(i))
>  				continue;
> -			}
>  			ac_ptr[i] = alloc_arraycache(node, limit, 0xbaadf00d,
> gfp);
>  			if (!ac_ptr[i]) {
>  				for (i--; i >= 0; i--)
>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-22 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-22 12:38 Haicheng Li
2009-12-22 12:40 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-22 15:47 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2009-12-23  6:52   ` Haicheng Li
2009-12-23 10:10     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-12-23 10:23       ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-23 11:23         ` Haicheng Li
2010-01-04 17:26           ` Christoph Lameter
2009-12-22 22:38 ` Matt Mackall
2009-12-23  9:58   ` [PATCH v2] " Haicheng Li
2010-01-04 17:27     ` Christoph Lameter

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