linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: vrealloc: consider spare memory for __GFP

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Message-Id: <20240730141526.ef8f665b3ccc65d3b41eed22@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:15:26 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
Cc: urezki@...il.com, hch@...radead.org, vbabka@...e.cz, mhocko@...e.com,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: vrealloc: consider spare memory for __GFP_ZERO

On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 20:49:42 +0200 Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org> wrote:

> Zero spare memory when shrinking a buffer with __GFP_ZERO.

Again, why?