Both users of careful_allocation() immediately memset() the
result.  So, just do it in one place.

Also give careful_allocation() a 'z' prefix to bring it in
line with kzmalloc() and friends.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 linux-2.6.git-dave/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c |   11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff -puN arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c~cleanup-careful_allocation2 
arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
--- linux-2.6.git/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c~cleanup-careful_allocation2    
2008-12-09 10:16:06.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.git-dave/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c   2008-12-09 10:16:06.000000000 
-0800
@@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ static void __init dump_numa_memory_topo
  *
  * Returns the virtual address of the memory.
  */
-static void __init *careful_allocation(int nid, unsigned long size,
+static void __init *careful_zallocation(int nid, unsigned long size,
                                       unsigned long align,
                                       unsigned long end_pfn)
 {
@@ -864,6 +864,7 @@ static void __init *careful_allocation(i
                dbg("alloc_bootmem %p %lx\n", ret, size);
        }
 
+       memset(ret, 0, size);
        return ret;
 }
 
@@ -970,10 +971,9 @@ void __init do_init_bootmem(void)
                 * previous nodes' bootmem to be initialized and have
                 * all reserved areas marked.
                 */
-               NODE_DATA(nid) = careful_allocation(nid,
+               NODE_DATA(nid) = careful_zallocation(nid,
                                        sizeof(struct pglist_data),
                                        SMP_CACHE_BYTES, end_pfn);
-               memset(NODE_DATA(nid), 0, sizeof(struct pglist_data));
 
                dbg("node %d\n", nid);
                dbg("NODE_DATA() = %p\n", NODE_DATA(nid));
@@ -989,10 +989,9 @@ void __init do_init_bootmem(void)
                dbg("end_paddr = %lx\n", end_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
 
                bootmap_pages = bootmem_bootmap_pages(end_pfn - start_pfn);
-               bootmem_vaddr = careful_allocation(nid,
+               bootmem_vaddr = careful_zallocation(nid,
                                        bootmap_pages << PAGE_SHIFT,
                                        PAGE_SIZE, end_pfn);
-               memset(bootmem_vaddr, 0, bootmap_pages << PAGE_SHIFT);
 
                dbg("bootmap_vaddr = %p\n", bootmem_vaddr);
 
@@ -1003,7 +1002,7 @@ void __init do_init_bootmem(void)
                free_bootmem_with_active_regions(nid, end_pfn);
                /*
                 * Be very careful about moving this around.  Future
-                * calls to careful_allocation() depend on this getting
+                * calls to careful_zallocation() depend on this getting
                 * done correctly.
                 */
                mark_reserved_regions_for_nid(nid);
_
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