Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:45:25 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH percpu#for-next] percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator |
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* Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:55:18 +0200 Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 10:52 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: > > > Percpu allocator should clear memory before returning it but the km > > > allocator forgot to do it. Fix it. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> > > > Spotted-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> > > > > (fwiw, -tip uses Reported-by) > > fyi, Documentation/SubmittingPatches does also.
Yeah, and, FYI, there's observed strong correlation between the maintenance policies of -tip and Documentation/SubmittingPatches. [i'd even venture so far to claim causation]
Thanks,
Ingo
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