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perf bench mem: Switch from zalloc() to mmap()
authorAnkur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:24:07 +0000 (08:24 -0700)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:43:12 +0000 (12:43 -0300)
commitfe0f3216dd8736afc1a6ddb0b79fd24f37418357
tree76c528d2c0a962a32f26798cd92f4c61768a3b2b
parentbdc22a83dc2a2f1ecfc4cdd8e605d6c075b3dd82
perf bench mem: Switch from zalloc() to mmap()

Using mmap() ensures that the buffer is always aligned at a fixed
boundary. Switch to that to remove one source of variability.

Since we always want to read/write from the allocated buffers map
with pagetables pre-populated.

Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/bench/mem-functions.c