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[mm,v3,07/38] mm: clarify __GFP_ZEROTAGS comment

Message ID bf783443f27c6ef6226fb9e532184be66bb906f0.1639432170.git.andreyknvl@google.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series kasan, vmalloc, arm64: add vmalloc tagging support for SW/HW_TAGS | expand

Commit Message

andrey.konovalov@linux.dev Dec. 13, 2021, 9:51 p.m. UTC 
From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>

__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.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
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 include/linux/gfp.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 63292fd99531..42b845cdc131 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -228,8 +228,8 @@  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).
  *
  * %__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