linux-kernel - Re: x86-64: memset()/memcpy() not fully standards compliant

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Date:	Fri, 6 Jan 2012 12:08:45 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, mingo@...e.hu,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: x86-64: memset()/memcpy() not fully standards compliant

> It's not the traditional bootmem implementation anymore, but
> alloc_bootmem() et al still exist, and still clear the allocated memory
> (in __alloc_memory_core_early()). So there is a code path that can
> validly be used (and it is this code path that is presenting one of the
> problems with the non-pv-ops Xen kernels, as they're using flatmem
> rather than sparsemem since their physical address space is always
> fully continuous).

Yes but there should be no callers that do alloc_bootmem(4G)
The biggest ones afak are the 1GB pages I added some time ago.

How is it a problem in the non pv Xen kernels?

-Andi
-- 
ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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