Re: [PATCH 0/2] (Was: perf_event_mmap(vma) && !vma->vm_mm)

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:43:48PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Peter, just in case. I understand that this all is minor. Just I am
> confused. And in any case I do think we do not need __GFP_ZERO when
> it comes to PAGE_SIZE allocation.

Yeah; we could probably avoid it; if only the strcpy functions would
return how many bytes they copied :/ Then we could create a nice little
helper to \0 the tail end for alignment.

Anyway, as long as the resulting code is obvious and makes it hard to
leak something I'm fine.
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