Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:09:04 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: bootmem allocator |
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* Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ingo, Peter, > > small question. It was a patch recently posted which removes memset(x, > 0, x) after __alloc_bootmem call. There are a few another code > snippets who still call memset(x, 0, x). And who is responsible for > memory clearing? bootmem allocator or caller?
hm, bootmem allocator is supposed to clear memory. We have a couple of places that rely on that.
Ingo
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