Use proper object allocators for unknown object nodes too

We used to use a different allocator scheme for when we didn't know the
object type.  That meant that objects that were created without any
up-front knowledge of the type would not go through the same allocation
paths as normal object allocations, and would miss out on the statistics.

But perhaps more importantly than the statistics (that are useful when
looking at memory usage but not much else), if we want to make the
object hash tables use a denser object pointer representation, we need
to make sure that they all go through the same blocking allocator.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/alloc.c b/alloc.c
index 460db192d5..53eba373db 100644
--- a/alloc.c
+++ b/alloc.c
@@ -18,26 +18,38 @@
 
 #define BLOCKING 1024
 
-#define DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(name)					\
+#define DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(name, type)				\
 static unsigned int name##_allocs;				\
 struct name *alloc_##name##_node(void)				\
 {								\
 	static int nr;						\
-	static struct name *block;				\
+	static type *block;					\
+	void *ret;						\
 								\
 	if (!nr) {						\
 		nr = BLOCKING;					\
-		block = xcalloc(BLOCKING, sizeof(struct name));	\
+		block = xmalloc(BLOCKING * sizeof(type));	\
 	}							\
 	nr--;							\
 	name##_allocs++;					\
-	return block++;						\
+	ret = block++;						\
+	memset(ret, 0, sizeof(type));				\
+	return ret;						\
 }
 
-DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(blob)
-DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(tree)
-DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(commit)
-DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(tag)
+union any_object {
+	struct object object;
+	struct blob blob;
+	struct tree tree;
+	struct commit commit;
+	struct tag tag;
+};
+
+DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(blob, struct blob)
+DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(tree, struct tree)
+DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(commit, struct commit)
+DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(tag, struct tag)
+DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(object, union any_object)
 
 #ifdef NO_C99_FORMAT
 #define SZ_FMT "%u"