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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Monday, April 7, 2008 - 2:56 pm

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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bootmem allocator, Cyrill Gorcunov, (Mon Apr 7, 2:56 pm)
Re: bootmem allocator, Ingo Molnar, (Mon Apr 7, 3:09 pm)
Re: bootmem allocator, Andi Kleen, (Mon Apr 7, 3:44 pm)
Re: bootmem allocator, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Apr 8, 4:04 am)
Re: bootmem allocator, Mike Travis, (Wed Apr 9, 2:00 am)
Re: bootmem allocator, Andi Kleen, (Wed Apr 9, 2:08 am)
Re: bootmem allocator, Mike Travis, (Wed Apr 9, 2:55 am)
Re: bootmem allocator, Andi Kleen, (Tue Apr 8, 4:12 am)
Re: bootmem allocator, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Apr 8, 1:44 pm)
Re: bootmem allocator, Cyrill Gorcunov, (Tue Apr 8, 1:34 pm)
Re: bootmem allocator, Cyrill Gorcunov, (Tue Apr 8, 9:57 am)
Re: bootmem allocator, Yinghai Lu, (Mon Apr 7, 5:45 pm)
Re: bootmem allocator, Cyrill Gorcunov, (Tue Apr 8, 12:14 am)
Re: bootmem allocator, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Apr 8, 12:33 am)
Re: bootmem allocator, Cyrill Gorcunov, (Tue Apr 8, 12:18 pm)
Re: bootmem allocator, Cyrill Gorcunov, (Tue Apr 8, 1:50 am)
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