I believe this deserves much more detailed explanation why this is safe.
What actually prevents any pfn walker from seeing an uninitialized
struct page? Please make your assumptions explicit in the commit log so
that we can check them independently.
There is nothing prevents pfn walkers from wal
On Mon 07-08-17 16:38:42, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> Add struct page zeroing as a part of initialization of other fields in
> __init_single_page().
I believe this deserves much more detailed explanation why this is safe.
What actually prevents any pfn walker from seeing an uninitialized
struct page?
Add struct page zeroing as a part of initialization of other fields in
__init_single_page().
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin
Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan
Reviewed-by: Bob Picco
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include/linux/mm.h | 9 +
mm/page_alloc.c| 1 +
2 files changed, 10 insertio
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