[PATCH] slab: optimize constant-size kzalloc calls

As suggested by Eric Dumazet, optimize kzalloc() calls that pass a
compile-time constant size.  Please note that the patch increases kernel
text slightly (~200 bytes for defconfig on x86).

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

2 files changed, 30 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 1216b09..15e1d97 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -110,7 +110,30 @@ found:
 	return __kmalloc(size, flags);
 }
 
-extern void *kzalloc(size_t, gfp_t);
+extern void *__kzalloc(size_t, gfp_t);
+
+static inline void *kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	if (__builtin_constant_p(size)) {
+		int i = 0;
+#define CACHE(x) \
+		if (size <= x) \
+			goto found; \
+		else \
+			i++;
+#include "kmalloc_sizes.h"
+#undef CACHE
+		{
+			extern void __you_cannot_kzalloc_that_much(void);
+			__you_cannot_kzalloc_that_much();
+		}
+found:
+		return kmem_cache_zalloc((flags & GFP_DMA) ?
+			malloc_sizes[i].cs_dmacachep :
+			malloc_sizes[i].cs_cachep, flags);
+	}
+	return __kzalloc(size, flags);
+}
 
 /**
  * kcalloc - allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero.
@@ -161,14 +184,14 @@ void *kmem_cache_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t);
 void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *c, void *b);
 const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_cache *);
 void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags);
-void *kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags);
+void *__kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags);
 void kfree(const void *m);
 unsigned int ksize(const void *m);
 unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *c);
 
 static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
 {
-	return kzalloc(n * size, flags);
+	return __kzalloc(n * size, flags);
 }
 
 #define kmem_cache_shrink(d) (0)
@@ -176,6 +199,7 @@ static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
 #define kmem_ptr_validate(a, b) (0)
 #define kmem_cache_alloc_node(c, f, n) kmem_cache_alloc(c, f)
 #define kmalloc_node(s, f, n) kmalloc(s, f)
+#define kzalloc(s, f) __kzalloc(s, f)
 #define ____kmalloc kmalloc
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_SLOB */
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index b68d3d7..73684792 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -5,18 +5,18 @@
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
 /**
- * kzalloc - allocate memory. The memory is set to zero.
+ * __kzalloc - allocate memory. The memory is set to zero.
  * @size: how many bytes of memory are required.
  * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
  */
-void *kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+void *__kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
 {
 	void *ret = ____kmalloc(size, flags);
 	if (ret)
 		memset(ret, 0, size);
 	return ret;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzalloc);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kzalloc);
 
 /*
  * kstrdup - allocate space for and copy an existing string