Re: 2.5.42-mm2

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 15:42:44 EST


On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> (1) It's embedded in struct zone, hence bootmem allocated, hence
>> already zeroed.

On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 06:04:02PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> The struct zone doesn't get automatically zeroed on all architectures.

It actually doesn't come out of bootmem. It's tacked onto min_low_pfn
because it's being dynamically allocated prior to init_bootmem().

Bill
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