linux-kernel - Re: bootmem allocator

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Date:	Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:50:50 +0400
From:	"Cyrill Gorcunov" <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.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

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:33 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Actually, I don't know without reading the code... will take a look
today evening
(have no access to sources in my office).
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