Re: [v6 05/15] mm: don't accessed uninitialized struct pages

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Aug 17 2017 - 11:43:36 EST


On Thu 17-08-17 11:28:23, Pasha Tatashin wrote:
> Hi Michal,
>
> I've been looking through this code again, and I think your suggestion will
> work. I did not realize this iterator already exist:
>
> for_each_free_mem_range() basically iterates through (memory && !reserved)
>
> This is exactly what we need here. So, I will update this patch to use this
> iterator, which will simplify it.

Please have a look at
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170815093306.GC29067@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I believe we can simply drop the check altogether.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs