Re: [v3 9/9] s390: teach platforms not to zero struct pages memory

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Ah OK, I will include the change.

Thank you,
Pasha

On 05/15/2017 07:17 PM, Heiko Carstens wrote:
Hello Pasha,

Thank you for looking at this patch. I am worried to make the proposed
change, because, as I understand in this case we allocate memory not for
"struct page"s but for table that hold them. So, we will change the behavior
from the current one, where this table is allocated zeroed, but now it won't
be zeroed.

The page table, if needed, is allocated and populated a couple of lines
above. See the vmem_pte_alloc() call. So my request to include the hunk
below is still valid ;)

If you add the hunk below then this is

Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c b/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c
index ffe9ba1aec8b..bf88a8b9c24d 100644
--- a/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node)
  		if (pte_none(*pt_dir)) {
  			void *new_page;
-			new_page = vmemmap_alloc_block(PAGE_SIZE, node, true);
+			new_page = vmemmap_alloc_block(PAGE_SIZE, node, VMEMMAP_ZERO);
  			if (!new_page)
  				goto out;
  			pte_val(*pt_dir) = __pa(new_page) | pgt_prot;



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