On Fri 06-10-17 12:11:42, David Laight wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko
> > Sent: 06 October 2017 12:47
> > On Fri 06-10-17 11:10:14, David Laight wrote:
> > > From: Pavel Tatashin
> > > > Sent: 05 October 2017 22:11
> > > > vmemmap_alloc_block() will no longer zero the block, so zero memory
> > > > at
From: Michal Hocko
> Sent: 06 October 2017 12:47
> On Fri 06-10-17 11:10:14, David Laight wrote:
> > From: Pavel Tatashin
> > > Sent: 05 October 2017 22:11
> > > vmemmap_alloc_block() will no longer zero the block, so zero memory
> > > at its call sites for everything except struct pages. Struct
On Fri 06-10-17 11:10:14, David Laight wrote:
> From: Pavel Tatashin
> > Sent: 05 October 2017 22:11
> > vmemmap_alloc_block() will no longer zero the block, so zero memory
> > at its call sites for everything except struct pages. Struct page memory
> > is zero'd by struct page initialization.
>
From: Pavel Tatashin
> Sent: 05 October 2017 22:11
> vmemmap_alloc_block() will no longer zero the block, so zero memory
> at its call sites for everything except struct pages. Struct page memory
> is zero'd by struct page initialization.
It seems dangerous to change an allocator to stop zeroing
