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SubjectRe: bootmem allocator

* 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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