[PATCH 2/2] mm, nobootmem: do memset() after memblock_reserve()

From: Joonsoo Kim
Date: Mon Apr 22 2013 - 04:24:05 EST


Currently, we do memset() before reserving the area.
This may not cause any problem, but it is somewhat weird.
So change execution order.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>

diff --git a/mm/nobootmem.c b/mm/nobootmem.c
index a31be7a..bdd3fa2 100644
--- a/mm/nobootmem.c
+++ b/mm/nobootmem.c
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ static void * __init __alloc_memory_core_early(int nid, u64 size, u64 align,
if (!addr)
return NULL;

+ memblock_reserve(addr, size);
ptr = phys_to_virt(addr);
memset(ptr, 0, size);
- memblock_reserve(addr, size);
/*
* The min_count is set to 0 so that bootmem allocated blocks
* are never reported as leaks.
--
1.7.9.5

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