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perf, amd: Use kmalloc_node(,__GFP_ZERO) for northbridge structure allocation

Jasper suggested we use the zeroing capability of the allocators
instead of calling memset ourselves. Add node affinity while we're at
it.

Reported-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra 14 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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      arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd.c

+ 2 - 2
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd.c

@@ -280,11 +280,11 @@ static struct amd_nb *amd_alloc_nb(int cpu, int nb_id)
 	struct amd_nb *nb;
 	int i;
 
-	nb = kmalloc(sizeof(struct amd_nb), GFP_KERNEL);
+	nb = kmalloc_node(sizeof(struct amd_nb), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
+			  cpu_to_node(cpu));
 	if (!nb)
 		return NULL;
 
-	memset(nb, 0, sizeof(*nb));
 	nb->nb_id = nb_id;
 
 	/*