From e1ca7788dec6773b1a2bce51b7141948f2b8bccf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:22:06 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] mm: add vzalloc() and vzalloc_node() helpers

Add vzalloc() and vzalloc_node() to encapsulate the
vmalloc-then-memset-zero operation.

Use __GFP_ZERO to zero fill the allocated memory.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 include/linux/vmalloc.h |  2 ++
 mm/nommu.c              | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 mm/vmalloc.c            | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 3 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index 63a4fe6d51bd..a03dcf62ca9d 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -53,8 +53,10 @@ static inline void vmalloc_init(void)
 #endif
 
 extern void *vmalloc(unsigned long size);
+extern void *vzalloc(unsigned long size);
 extern void *vmalloc_user(unsigned long size);
 extern void *vmalloc_node(unsigned long size, int node);
+extern void *vzalloc_node(unsigned long size, int node);
 extern void *vmalloc_exec(unsigned long size);
 extern void *vmalloc_32(unsigned long size);
 extern void *vmalloc_32_user(unsigned long size);
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 88ff091eb07a..30b5c20eec15 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -293,11 +293,58 @@ void *vmalloc(unsigned long size)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc);
 
+/*
+ *	vzalloc - allocate virtually continguos memory with zero fill
+ *
+ *	@size:		allocation size
+ *
+ *	Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level
+ *	allocator and map them into continguos kernel virtual space.
+ *	The memory allocated is set to zero.
+ *
+ *	For tight control over page level allocator and protection flags
+ *	use __vmalloc() instead.
+ */
+void *vzalloc(unsigned long size)
+{
+	return __vmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO,
+			PAGE_KERNEL);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vzalloc);
+
+/**
+ * vmalloc_node - allocate memory on a specific node
+ * @size:	allocation size
+ * @node:	numa node
+ *
+ * Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level
+ * allocator and map them into contiguous kernel virtual space.
+ *
+ * For tight control over page level allocator and protection flags
+ * use __vmalloc() instead.
+ */
 void *vmalloc_node(unsigned long size, int node)
 {
 	return vmalloc(size);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_node);
+
+/**
+ * vzalloc_node - allocate memory on a specific node with zero fill
+ * @size:	allocation size
+ * @node:	numa node
+ *
+ * Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level
+ * allocator and map them into contiguous kernel virtual space.
+ * The memory allocated is set to zero.
+ *
+ * For tight control over page level allocator and protection flags
+ * use __vmalloc() instead.
+ */
+void *vzalloc_node(unsigned long size, int node)
+{
+	return vzalloc(size);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vzalloc_node);
 
 #ifndef PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC
 # define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC PAGE_KERNEL
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index f492c774fa7b..a3d66b3dc5cb 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1596,6 +1596,13 @@ void *__vmalloc(unsigned long size, gfp_t gfp_mask, pgprot_t prot)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vmalloc);
 
+static inline void *__vmalloc_node_flags(unsigned long size,
+					int node, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	return __vmalloc_node(size, 1, flags, PAGE_KERNEL,
+					node, __builtin_return_address(0));
+}
+
 /**
  *	vmalloc  -  allocate virtually contiguous memory
  *	@size:		allocation size
@@ -1607,11 +1614,27 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vmalloc);
  */
 void *vmalloc(unsigned long size)
 {
-	return __vmalloc_node(size, 1, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM, PAGE_KERNEL,
-					-1, __builtin_return_address(0));
+	return __vmalloc_node_flags(size, -1, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc);
 
+/**
+ *	vzalloc - allocate virtually contiguous memory with zero fill
+ *	@size:	allocation size
+ *	Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level
+ *	allocator and map them into contiguous kernel virtual space.
+ *	The memory allocated is set to zero.
+ *
+ *	For tight control over page level allocator and protection flags
+ *	use __vmalloc() instead.
+ */
+void *vzalloc(unsigned long size)
+{
+	return __vmalloc_node_flags(size, -1,
+				GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vzalloc);
+
 /**
  * vmalloc_user - allocate zeroed virtually contiguous memory for userspace
  * @size: allocation size
@@ -1653,6 +1676,25 @@ void *vmalloc_node(unsigned long size, int node)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_node);
 
+/**
+ * vzalloc_node - allocate memory on a specific node with zero fill
+ * @size:	allocation size
+ * @node:	numa node
+ *
+ * Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level
+ * allocator and map them into contiguous kernel virtual space.
+ * The memory allocated is set to zero.
+ *
+ * For tight control over page level allocator and protection flags
+ * use __vmalloc_node() instead.
+ */
+void *vzalloc_node(unsigned long size, int node)
+{
+	return __vmalloc_node_flags(size, node,
+			 GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vzalloc_node);
+
 #ifndef PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC
 # define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC PAGE_KERNEL
 #endif