bootmem allocator

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Mon Apr 07 2008 - 14:57:12 EST


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?

- Cyrill -
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