linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 01/10] riscv: mm: Remove setup_zero

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Date:   Tue, 13 Apr 2021 09:19:59 +0530
From:   Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>
To:     Jisheng Zhang <jszhang3@...l.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc:     Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Björn Töpel <bjorn@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        Luke Nelson <luke.r.nels@...il.com>,
        Xi Wang <xi.wang@...il.com>,
        linux-riscv <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/10] riscv: mm: Remove setup_zero_page()

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 9:47 PM Jisheng Zhang <jszhang3@...l.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:
>
> From: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>
>
> The empty_zero_page sits at .bss..page_aligned section, so will be
> cleared to zero during clearing bss, we don't need to clear it again.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>

Regards,
Anup

> ---
>  arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 6 ------
>  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> index 7f5036fbee8c..dbeaa4144e4d 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> @@ -57,11 +57,6 @@ static void __init zone_sizes_init(void)
>         free_area_init(max_zone_pfns);
>  }
>
> -static void setup_zero_page(void)
> -{
> -       memset((void *)empty_zero_page, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
> -}
> -
>  #if defined(CONFIG_MMU) && defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM)
>  static inline void print_mlk(char *name, unsigned long b, unsigned long t)
>  {
> @@ -589,7 +584,6 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void)
>  void __init paging_init(void)
>  {
>         setup_vm_final();
> -       setup_zero_page();
>  }
>
>  void __init misc_mem_init(void)
> --
> 2.31.0
>
>