linux-kernel - bootmem allocator

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Date:	Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:56:13 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: bootmem allocator

Hi Ingo, Peter,

small question. It was a patch recently posted which removes
memset(x, 0, x) after __alloc_bootmem call. There are a few another
code snippets who still call memset(x, 0, x). And who is responsible for
memory clearing? bootmem allocator or caller?

		- Cyrill -
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