linux-kernel - Re: bootmem allocator

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Message-ID: <47FAF593.4020503@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:33:23 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
CC:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bootmem allocator

Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> 
> I think it would be a good idea ;) Btw maybe would be better to call
> memset on the code witch relies on "clear" memory explicitly? So we will
> clear memory allocated *only* if we really need this.
> 

Are there any users of bootmem which will allocate a significant amount 
of memory and don't need it zeroed?

	-hpa
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