linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] AMD Microcode: Prefer vzalloc() over calls to vmalloc()+memset().

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Message-ID: <20101102175127.GB2961@kryptos.osrc.amd.com>
Date:	Tue, 2 Nov 2010 18:51:27 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
CC:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	<amd64-microcode@...64.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] AMD Microcode: Prefer vzalloc() over calls to
 vmalloc()+memset().

On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 10:44:34PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> We don't have to do memset() ourselves after vmalloc() when we have 
> vzalloc(), so change that in 
> arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c::get_next_ucode().
> Thanks to Borislav Petkov for improvement suggestions.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>

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