Re: bootmem allocator

[Yinghai Lu]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>  > * Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  >
>  >> 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?
>  >
>  > hm, bootmem allocator is supposed to clear memory. We have a couple of
>  > places that rely on that.
>
>  I was actually considering to change that for the GB pages hugetlbfs
>  patchkit, because memset for 1G is a little slow and not needed (will be cleared later
>  anyways) and it might be a problem for very large systems with a lot of such
>  pages at boot.

add another zalloc_bootmem?

YH
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