Messages in this thread | | | From | David Laight <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH v10 09/10] mm: stop zeroing memory during allocation in vmemmap | Date | Fri, 6 Oct 2017 11:10:14 +0000 |
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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 memory. It is probably saver to add a new function that doesn't zero the memory and use that is the places where you don't want it to be zeroed.
David
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