On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 11:10:23AM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > I was about to agree, but now I'm not so sure. I don't know much > about these PMC things, but at a glance it looks like what is reserved > by x86_reserve_hardware() may later be released by x86_release_hardware(), > and then later reserved again by x86_reserve_hardware(). And although > the static per-cpu area would be zeroed the first time, the second time > it will contain data left over from before, so really needs the memset? Ah, yes. It does get reused. I think its still fine, but yes lets keep it. Better safe than sorry and its not a hot path in any case. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
