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[036/114] mm: clarify __GFP_ZEROTAGS comment

Message ID 20220325011023.18EECC340ED@smtp.kernel.org (mailing list archive)
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Andrew Morton March 25, 2022, 1:10 a.m. UTC 
From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Subject: mm: clarify __GFP_ZEROTAGS comment

__GFP_ZEROTAGS is intended as an optimization: if memory is zeroed during
allocation, it's possible to set memory tags at the same time with little
performance impact.

Clarify this intention of __GFP_ZEROTAGS in the comment.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cdffde013973c5634a447513e10ec0d21e8eee29.1643047180.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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 include/linux/gfp.h |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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--- a/include/linux/gfp.h~mm-clarify-__gfp_zerotags-comment
+++ a/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -232,8 +232,10 @@  struct vm_area_struct;
  *
  * %__GFP_ZERO returns a zeroed page on success.
  *
- * %__GFP_ZEROTAGS returns a page with zeroed memory tags on success, if
- * __GFP_ZERO is set.
+ * %__GFP_ZEROTAGS zeroes memory tags at allocation time if the memory itself
+ * is being zeroed (either via __GFP_ZERO or via init_on_alloc). This flag is
+ * intended for optimization: setting memory tags at the same time as zeroing
+ * memory has minimal additional performace impact.
  *
  * %__GFP_SKIP_KASAN_POISON returns a page which does not need to be poisoned
  * on deallocation. Typically used for userspace pages. Currently only has an