Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 17:57:12 EST

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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
> None at all. If you needed the memory before you committed to an
> operation you should have reserved it before you started. See "sloppy
> coders"

This is true. I must admit I was having trouble trying to think of a real
case where the latter applied in _sane_ code.

-- dwmw2

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