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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:35:44 -0400 From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com> To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/x86: drop redundant zeroing from cpu_initialize_context() On 9/16/21 11:05 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: > Just after having obtained the pointer from kzalloc() there's no reason > at all to set part of the area to all zero yet another time. Similarly > there's no point explicitly clearing "ldt_ents". > > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrvsky@...cle.com>
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