kcalloc() doesn't do much more than calling kzalloc(), and gcc has
better optimizing opportunities when it's inlined.
The result of this patch with a fulll kernel compile (roughly equivalent
to "make allyesconfig") shows a minimal size improvement:
text data bss dec hex filename
25864955 5891214 2012840 33769009 2034631 vmlinux-before
25864635 5891206 2012840 33768681 20344e9 vmlinux-staticinline
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/slab.h | 15 ++++++++++++++-
mm/slab.c | 14 --------------
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6.13-rc5-mm1-full/include/linux/slab.h.old 2005-08-08 12:28:32.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc5-mm1-full/include/linux/slab.h 2005-08-08 12:29:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -103,8 +103,21 @@
return __kmalloc(size, flags);
}
-extern void *kcalloc(size_t, size_t, unsigned int __nocast);
extern void *kzalloc(size_t, unsigned int __nocast);
+
+/**
+ * kcalloc - allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero.
+ * @n: number of elements.
+ * @size: element size.
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
+ */
+static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, unsigned int __nocast flags)
+{
+ if (n != 0 && size > INT_MAX / n)
+ return NULL;
+ return kzalloc(n * size, flags);
+}
+
extern void kfree(const void *);
extern unsigned int ksize(const void *);
--- linux-2.6.13-rc5-mm1-full/mm/slab.c.old 2005-08-08 12:29:26.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc5-mm1-full/mm/slab.c 2005-08-08 12:29:53.000000000 +0200
@@ -3028,20 +3028,6 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzalloc);
/**
- * kcalloc - allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero.
- * @n: number of elements.
- * @size: element size.
- * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
- */
-void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, unsigned int __nocast flags)
-{
- if (n != 0 && size > INT_MAX / n)
- return NULL;
- return kzalloc(n * size, flags);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kcalloc);
-
-/**
* kfree - free previously allocated memory
* @objp: pointer returned by kmalloc.
*
-
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