[PATCH 03/12] arm/arm64: KVM: use __GFP_ZERO not memset() to get zeroed pages

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Sat Oct 18 04:56:53 PDT 2014


From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>

Pass __GFP_ZERO to __get_free_pages() instead of calling memset()
explicitly.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
index eea0306..8f0c7a4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -528,11 +528,10 @@ int kvm_alloc_stage2_pgd(struct kvm *kvm)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	pgd = (pgd_t *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, S2_PGD_ORDER);
+	pgd = (pgd_t *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, S2_PGD_ORDER);
 	if (!pgd)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	memset(pgd, 0, PTRS_PER_S2_PGD * sizeof(pgd_t));
 	kvm_clean_pgd(pgd);
 	kvm->arch.pgd = pgd;
 
-- 
2.1.1




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