Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 May 2008 09:25:41 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sparsemem vmemmap: initialize memmap. |
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Nack. vmemmap_alloc_block does
void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block(unsigned long size, int node) { /* If the main allocator is up use that, fallback to bootmem. */ if (slab_is_available()) { struct page *page = alloc_pages_node(node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, get_order(size)); if (page) return page_address(page); return NULL; } else return __earlyonly_bootmem_alloc(node, size, size, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS)); }
memory is always zeroed. Maybe you use an alternate implementation that is broken?
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