Re: [patch 1/4] mm/sparse: consistently do not zero memmap

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On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 5:53 PM <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> AFAICS this difference does not appear to be on purpose.  If the code is
> supposed to work with non-initialized memory (__init_single_page() takes
> care of zeroing the struct pages which are actually used), we should
> consistently not zero the memory, to avoid masking bugs.
>

This does not seem to be an actual fix, and I will not apply it this
late in the rc game.

Andrew, please stop sending cleanups as "fixes".

                 Linus




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