Re: bootmem allocator

[Ingo Molnar]

* Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> 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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