From: Michal Hocko > Sent: 06 October 2017 12:47 > On Fri 06-10-17 11:10:14, David Laight wrote: > > From: Pavel Tatashin > > > Sent: 05 October 2017 22:11 > > > vmemmap_alloc_block() will no longer zero the block, so zero memory > > > at its call sites for everything except struct pages. Struct page memory > > > is zero'd by struct page initialization. > > > > It seems dangerous to change an allocator to stop zeroing memory. > > It is probably saver to add a new function that doesn't zero > > the memory and use that is the places where you don't want it > > to be zeroed. > > Not sure what you mean. memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid_raw is a new > function which doesn't zero out... You should probably leave vmemap_alloc_block() zeroing the memory so that existing alls don't have to be changed - apart from the ones you are explicitly optimising. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
