linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8, part3 02/14] mm: enhance free_reserved_area() to support poisoning memory with zero

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Date:	Wed, 29 May 2013 14:21:58 +0530
From:	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
To:	Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>,
	Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@...wei.com>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8, part3 02/14] mm: enhance free_reserved_area() to support
 poisoning memory with zero

On 05/26/2013 07:08 PM, Jiang Liu wrote:
> Address more review comments from last round of code review.
> 1) Enhance free_reserved_area() to support poisoning freed memory with
>    pattern '0'. This could be used to get rid of poison_init_mem()
>    on ARM64.
> 2) A previous patch has disabled memory poison for initmem on s390
>    by mistake, so restore to the original behavior.
> 3) Remove redundant PAGE_ALIGN() when calling free_reserved_area().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>

Can you apply these to you github v5 branch as well !

Thx,
-Vineet

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