* [merged mm-nonmm-stable] kernel-relay-use-__gfp_zero-in-relay_alloc_buf.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2025-07-10 5:59 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2025-07-10 5:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, git, akpm
The quilt patch titled
Subject: kernel: relay: use __GFP_ZERO in relay_alloc_buf
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
kernel-relay-use-__gfp_zero-in-relay_alloc_buf.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Elijah Wright <git@elijahs.space>
Subject: kernel: relay: use __GFP_ZERO in relay_alloc_buf
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:56:28 -0700
Passing the __GFP_ZERO flag to alloc_page should result in less overhead
th= an using memset()
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250610225639.314970-3-git@elijahs.space
Signed-off-by: Elijah Wright <git@elijahs.space>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
kernel/relay.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/relay.c~kernel-relay-use-__gfp_zero-in-relay_alloc_buf
+++ a/kernel/relay.c
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ static void *relay_alloc_buf(struct rcha
return NULL;
for (i = 0; i < n_pages; i++) {
- buf->page_array[i] = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+ buf->page_array[i] = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
if (unlikely(!buf->page_array[i]))
goto depopulate;
set_page_private(buf->page_array[i], (unsigned long)buf);
@@ -127,7 +127,6 @@ static void *relay_alloc_buf(struct rcha
if (!mem)
goto depopulate;
- memset(mem, 0, *size);
buf->page_count = n_pages;
return mem;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from git@elijahs.space are
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